“Beauty Changed to Ugly Whoredom”: Analyzing the Mermaid Figure in The Changeling

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. “One Little Room, An Everywhere”: Staging Silence in London’s Blackfriars and Shakespeare’s Henry VIII 1
4. “What they are yet I know not”: Speech, Silence, and Meaning in King Lear 13
5. Shakespearean Epiphany 31
6. Between the “triple pillar” and “mutual pair”: Love, Friendship, and Social Networks in Antony and Cleopatra 43
7. “Beauty Changed to Ugly Whoredom”: Analyzing the Mermaid Figure in The Changeling 55
8. Imagining the Other in a Cuzco Defense of the Eucharist 67
9. A Critique of Poor Reading: Antissia’s Madness in The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 93
10. “Thou thyself likewise art lyttle made”: Spenser, Catullus, and the Aesthetics of “smale poemes” 105
11. The ordo salutis: Sacred Circularities in John Donne’s “Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward” 121
12. “Broken-Backed” Texts: Meritocracy and Misogyny in Ben Jonson’s The Forrest 131