Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-262) and index.
Courting heresy and taking the subject: John Skelton's precedent -- Spenser and the poetics of indiscretion -- The properties of Shakespeare's Globe -- The witch of Edmonton and the guilt of possession -- Samson's death by theater and Milton's art of dying -- Guilt and the constitution of authorship in Henry V and the antitheatrical elegies of W. S. and Milton