Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Theseus, Phantasia, and the Scientific Renaissance 1
6. Chapter 1. Between Heart and Eye Anatomies of Imagination in the Sonnets 27
7. Chapter 2. Children of Fancy Academic Idleness and Love’s Labor’s Lost 56
8. Chapter 3. Of Atoms, Air, and Insects: Mercutio’s Vain Fantasy 83
9. Chapter 4. Seeming to See: King Lear’s Mental Optics 110
10. Chapter 5. Melancholy, Ecstasy, Phantasma The Pathologies of Macbeth 137
11. Chapter 6. Chimeras Natural History and the Shapes of The Tempest 164
12. Epilogue The Rude Fantasticals 191
13. Bibliography 205
14. Index 223