Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: World Enough and Time 1
5. Part I. Materiality
6. 1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene 23
7. 2. Extreme Cary 45
8. 3. Marlowe’s Footstools 64
9. Part II. Sociality
10. 4. “Who Is Speaking Here?”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University 81
11. 5. Hamlet and the Truth about Friendship 100
12. 6. “Racked . . . to the Uttermost”: The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice 121
13. 7. Cities of the Stranger 142
14. Part III. Universality
15. 8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism, and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion 163
16. 9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm / Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne 190
17. 10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli’s Dastan 212
18. Acknowledgments 231
19. List of Contributors 233
20. Index 237