Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship 1
6. Chapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies 27
7. Chapter Two. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice 44
8. Chapter Three. “Are You a Comedian?”: The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine 65
9. Chapter Four. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor 81
10. Chapter Five. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure 98
11. Chapter Six. Rewriting the “Ladies’ Text”: All’s Well That Ends Well 112
12. Chapter Seven. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline 125
13. Conclusion 140
14. Appendix. Italian and French Novellas in England 147
15. Notes 161
16. Bibliography 229
17. Index 255