Table of Contents:
  • Reading, stage by stage : Shakespeare's Sonnets / Helen Vendler
  • Close reading without readings / Stephen Booth
  • Troubles of a professional meter reader / George T. Wright
  • Hydra and Rhizome / Harry Berger Jr.
  • Othello and Hamlet : dilation, spying, and the "secret place" of woman / Patricia Parker
  • "To you I give myself, for I am yours" : erotic performance and theatrical performatives in As you like it / Susanne L. Wofford
  • Pushing the envelope : supersonic criticism / Davil Wilbern
  • The Taming of the shrew, good husbandry, and enclosure / Lynda E. Boose
  • "Word itself against the word" : close readings after Voloshinov / James R. Siemon
  • The critic, the poor player, Prince Hamlet and the Lady in the Dark / Barbara Hodgdon.