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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Novice? 1
6. Chapter 1: “Turn’d to a Nunnery”: Abigail’s Agency in The Jew of Malta 25
7. Chapter 2: Two Houses Both Alike: Walls and Women in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 49
8. Chapter 3: Romancing the Grate in Convent Dialogues 75
9. Chapter 4: Beyond the Grate: Repurposing Enclosure and Reforming Pleasure in Margaret Cavendish’s The Religious and The Convent of Pleasure 101
10. Chapter 5: “What Think You of a Nunnery Wall?”: Lifelines in Aphra Behn’s The Rover 141
11. Bibliography 169
12. Index 176