Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Bibliographical Note ix
4. Preface xi
5. Early Modern Spectatorship: An Overview 3
6. Making Spectacles: Spectatorship and Authority on the Early Modern Stage 20
7. “Shame's pure blush”: Shakespeare and the Ethics of Spectatorship 47
8. Spectatorship and Repression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night 77
9. “Most grateful deceptions of the sight”: Optical Technologies in Restoration England 104
10. Dying in Earnest: Public Executions and Their Audiences 130
11. Looking at John Donne Looking at God 170
12. Sidney Visualized: Thomas Lant's Sequitur celebritas (1588) and the Funeral Construction of an English National Hero 194
13. “Watching the Watchers”: The Spectatorship Game in Ned Ward's The London Spy 213
14. Prospect Views: Landscapes, Knowledge, and Political Spectatorship in the Eighteenth Century 240
15. A Case Study on Spectatorship and the Visual Arts: Democritus and Heraclitus 267
16. Spectacle and the Chronotope of Progress in William Hogarth's London 296
17. Mural Painting and Spectatorship in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain 330
18. Illustrations 355
19. Bibliography 359
20. Contributors 395
21. Index 399