| PAGE | |
| From the Mycenae Papers | 1 |
| With the Carthaginian Fleet, 216 b.c. | 21 |
| Lesbia Illa | 29 |
| Cleopatra at Rome | 39 |
| Ovid’s Banishment | 50 |
| The Caprae Regatta, a.d. 27 | 60 |
| Messalina | 68 |
| Nero Interviewed, Rome, a.d. 64 | 81 |
| Marcus Aurelius at Lanuvium | 91 |
| The Camelot Jousts | 103 |
| King Lear’s Daughter | 113 |
| Lady Macbeth’s Trouble | 121 |
| At the Court of King Claudius | 130 |
| Romeo and Rosaline | 138 |
| A First Night | 147 |
| The Poet, the Player, and the Literary Agent | 156 |
| Bath, 1663 | 168 |
| Peter the Great | 176 |
| “Hamlet” and Dr. Dodd | 188 |
| Herr Müller | 197 |
| Heine in Paris | 207 |
| Smith Major | 217 |
| From Saturday to Monday | 224 |
| A Russian Sailor | 236 |