Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • Part I. Common Grounds: Sexual and Economic Demarcations
  • 1. Landlord Not King: Agrarian Change and Interarticulation
  • Notes
  • 2. The Nursery of Beggary: Enclosure, Vagrancy, and Sedition in the Tudor-Stuart Period
  • Notes
  • 3. Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI
  • Notes
  • 4. Foreign Country: The Place of Women and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Historical World
  • Notes
  • 5. Shakespear and the English Witch-Hunts: Enclosing the Maternal Body
  • Notes
  • 6. Observations on English Bodies: Licensing Maternity in Shakespeare's Late Plays
  • Notes
  • 7. The Poetry of Conduct: Accommodation and Transgression in the Faerie Queene, Book 6
  • Notes
  • 8. Submitting to History: Marlowe's Edward II
  • Notes
  • 9. The 1599 Bishops' Ban, Elizabethan Pornography, and the Sexualization of the Jacobean Stage
  • Notes
  • Part II. Boundary Disputes: Consequences of Consolidation
  • 10. This Is Not a Pipe: Water Supply, Incontinent Sources, and the Leaky Body Politic
  • Notes
  • 11. The Enclosure of Virginity: The Poetics of Sexual Abstinence in the English Revolution
  • Notes
  • 12. The Garden Enclosed / the Woman Enclosed: Marvell and the Cavalier Poets
  • Notes
  • 13. The Garden State: Marvell's Poetics of Enclosure
  • Notes
  • 14. Dictionary English and the Female Tongue
  • Notes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index