Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface viii
5. Introduction: The Body at Play in Early Modern Texts 1
6. 1. Ungracious Grace: Proprioception and Staging Taste in Thomas Dekker’s If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is in It (1611) 8
7. 2. Walking Without God – (Mis)Learning Through the Gait in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) and James Mabbe’s The Rogue (1622) 36
8. 3. Plain Plasticity – Thomas Ellwood’s The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood (1714) 58
9. 4. Chaste and Silent – Again. Vitality and the Bound and Loosed Body in I.T.’s Grim the Collier of Croydon; or, The Devil and His Dame (c. 1600) 81
10. Index 109