Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents XI
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. Body-Building: The Besieged Castle in Books I and II of The Faerie Queene 17
6. Chapter Two. Castles in the Air: The Figurative Frame of Mind in Shakespeare’s Second Henriad 37
7. Chapter Three. Under Lock and Key: The Body as a House in Book III of The Faerie Queene 57
8. Chapter Four. Ruined Cities and Dividing Walls: Spenser’s Ruines of Rome, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus 75
9. Chapter Five. The Passionate Body as a Built Environment: Books IV–V of The Faerie Queene and Antony and Cleopatra 99
10. Chapter Six. The Architectural Place of the Mind: Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest 125
11. Endnotes 151
12. Bibliography 195
13. Index 217