Charlotte Scott is a Lecturer in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

The power of Scott's own book lies in its individual chapters, all of which offer some subtle reading.

• 1. Introduction: 'Give me that glass, and therein will I read' ; 2. 'Sad stories chanced in the times of old': the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline ; 3. 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet': teaching, perversion, and subversion in The Taming of The Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost ; 4. 'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven': word, image, and the Reformation of the self in Richard II ; 5. 'Minding true things by what their mockeries be': forgetting and remembering in Hamlet ; 6. 'Rather like a dream than an assurance': The Tempest and the Book of Illusions ; 7. Conclusion: 'We turn'd o'er many books together'

Charlotte Scott is a Lecturer in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

The power of Scott's own book lies in its individual chapters, all of which offer some subtle reading.

• 1. Introduction: 'Give me that glass, and therein will I read' ; 2. 'Sad stories chanced in the times of old': the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline ; 3. 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet': teaching, perversion, and subversion in The Taming of The Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost ; 4. 'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven': word, image, and the Reformation of the self in Richard II ; 5. 'Minding true things by what their mockeries be': forgetting and remembering in Hamlet ; 6. 'Rather like a dream than an assurance': The Tempest and the Book of Illusions ; 7. Conclusion: 'We turn'd o'er many books together'

Charlotte Scott is a Lecturer in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

The power of Scott's own book lies in its individual chapters, all of which offer some subtle reading.

• 1. Introduction: 'Give me that glass, and therein will I read' ; 2. 'Sad stories chanced in the times of old': the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline ; 3. 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet': teaching, perversion, and subversion in The Taming of The Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost ; 4. 'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven': word, image, and the Reformation of the self in Richard II ; 5. 'Minding true things by what their mockeries be': forgetting and remembering in Hamlet ; 6. 'Rather like a dream than an assurance': The Tempest and the Book of Illusions ; 7. Conclusion: 'We turn'd o'er many books together'