Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Making Writing: Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture
5. Chapter 1. Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing 15
6. Chapter 2. Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse 32
7. Chapter 3. Transforming A Mirror for Magistrates 48
8. Chapter 4. ‘Not without Mustard’: Self-publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London 64
9. Part II. Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History
10. Chapter 5. The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-thinking Authorship Through Collaboration 81
11. Chapter 6. The Duties of Societies: Literature, Friendship and Community 97
12. Chapter 7. Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance Writing 112
13. Chapter 8. The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing 128
14. Part III. Embodying Change: Psychic and Somatic Performances
15. Chapter 9. Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry 145
16. Chapter 10. Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions 161
17. Chapter 11. Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest 177
18. Chapter 12. ‘A Cat On A Post’: Animal Events in Seventeenth-century Writing 192
19. Notes on Contributors 208
20. Index 211