Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and The Representation of Rebellion 1
5. "Shaping Fantasies": Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture 31
6. Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance 65
7. "Secret" Arts: Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets 93
8. Shakespeare's "Perjur'd Eye" 135
9. Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender 163
10. Fabula and Historia: The Crisis of the "Universall Consideration" in The Unfortunate Traveller 181
11. "Who does the wolf love?" Reading Coriolanus* 197
12. Prospero's Wife 217
13. Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same 231
14. The Script in the Marketplace 265
15. The Sovereign, the Theater, and the Kingdome of Darknesse: Hobbes and the Spectacle of Power 279
16. Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Politics of Religious Discourse: The Case of the English Family of Love 303
17. The Land Speaks: Cartography, Chorography, and Subversion in Renaissance England 327
18. Contributors 363
19. Index 365