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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Forming Sleep 1
5. Part I: Sleep States and Subjectivity in Early Modern Lyric
6. 1. Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence 21
7. 2. Rest and Rhyme in Thomas Campion’s Poetry 51
8. 3. “Still in Thought with Thee I Go”: Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms 69
9. Part II: Sleep, Ethics, and Embodied Form in Early Modern Drama
10. 4. Making the Moor: Torture, Sleep Deprivation, and Race in Othello 89
11. 5. Sleep, Vulnerability, and Self-Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 109
12. 6. “The Heaviness of Sleep”: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear 127
13. Part III: Sleep and Personhood in the Early Modern Verse Epic and Prose Treatise
14. 7. Life and Labor in the House of Care: Spenserian Ethics and the Aesthetics of Insomnia 149
15. 8. “Sweet Moistning Sleepe”: Perturbations of the Mind and Rest for the Body in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy 167
16. 9. The Physiology of Free Will: Faculty Psychology and the Structure of the Miltonic Mind 187
17. Afterword: Beyond the Lost World; Early Modern Sleep Scenarios 209
18. Bibliography 217
19. List of Contributors 231
20. Index 233