Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: Reflective Readers
6. 1. Reading, Stage by Stage: Shakespeare's Sonnets 23
7. 2. Close Reading without Readings 42
8. 3. Troubles of a Professional Meter Reader 56
9. PART TWO: Reading Reflexively
10. 4. Hydra and Rhizome 79
11. 5. Othello and Hamlet: Dilation, Spying, and the "Secret Place " of Woman 105
12. 6. "To You I Give Myself, For I Am Yours": Erotic Performance and Theatrical Performatives in As You Like It 147
13. 7. Pushing the Envelope: Supersonic Criticism 170
14. PART THREE: Reflexive Readings
15. 8. The Taming of the Shrew, Good Husbandry, and Enclosure 193
16. 9. "Word Itself against the Word": Close Reading after Voloshinov 226
17. 10. The Critic, the Poor Player, Prince Hamlet, and the Lady in the Dark 259
18. Contributors 295
19. Index 297