Reading Shakespeare's poems in early modern England

Ladies Reading 'bawdy geare': Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis and the Early Modern Woman Reader

Reading the 'bawdy geare' of Venus and Adonis

Fashioning the woman reader of Venus and Adonis

Commentary and marginalia: the testimony of two women readers of Venus and Adonis

Charting the resistant woman reader of Shakespeare

Coda: commodifying Venus and Adonis for the woman reader

Light Literature and Gentlemen Readers: Venus and Adonis, Textual Transmission and the Construction of Poetic Meaning

Paradoxes in light literature: the gentleman reader of Venus and Adonis

Reading for pleasure and profit: the transmission of Venus and Adonis in manuscript

The wisdom in wanton works: commonplacing Venus and Adonis in print

The Malleable Poetic Text: Narrative, Authorship and the Transmission of Lucrece

Reading Lucrece's rape

Shaping stories and authors: the work of editorial apparatus

Application and eroticism: commonplacing Shakespeare's Lucrece

Textual Transmission and the Transformation of Desire: The Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint and The Passionate Pilgrim

The 'double voice' of desire in the Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint

The rhetoric of authorship and desire: the transmission of Shakespeare's sonnets in print

The agency of readers: the transmission of the sonnets and The Passionate Pilgrim in manuscript

Bawdy, misogyny and the female reader: Shakespeare's sonnets and The Passionate Pilgrim in two women's manuscript miscellanies.