Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: A Tale of Robin Hood 1
6. 1. Common Rhetoric: Planting Figures of Speech in the English Shire 29
7. 2. The Trespasser: Displacing Virgilian Figures in Spenser’s Faerie Queene 55
8. 3. The Insertour: Putting the Parenthesis in Sidney’s Arcadia 87
9. 4. The Changeling: Mingling Heroes and Hobgoblins in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 118
10. 5. The Figure of Exchange: Gender Exchange in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 and Jonson’s Epicene 146
11. 6. The Mingle-Mangle: The Hodgepodge of Fancy and Philosophy in Cavendish’s Blazing World 171
12. Conclusion “Words Made Visible” and the Turn against Rhetoric 201
13. Appendix of English Rhetorical Manuals 219
14. Bibliography 223
15. Index 237