Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Prologue ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Motivating the myth 19
7. 2 ‘Thou art not what thou seem’st’ 30
8. 3 ‘But with my body my poor soul’s pollution’ 64
9. 4 Lust- breathed Tarquin – Lucrece, the name of chaste 99
10. 5 Divine comedies 107
11. 6 The sonnet as miniature drama 111
12. 7 Sole- talk and soul- talk 140
13. 8 The speaker on the stage of the poem 184
14. 9 Dialogue and antagonism in Donne’s theatre of the soul 216
15. Part III Conclusion
16. 10 So(u)le-talk, self, and stages of the soul 223
17. Bibliography 228
18. Index 262