Uses of this World

Andrew Hiscock is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Wales, Bangor. He has published widely on early modern writing in academic journals. His first monograph, Authority and Desire: Crises of Interpretation in Shakespeare and Racine, appeared in 1996 and he co-edited Dangerous Diversity: The Changing Faces of Wales from the Renaissance to the Present Day (1998). He is at present co-editing a forthcoming collection, Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists, and is working on a new study of discourses of memory in early modern literature.

• Introduction (I) Thinking Space for Hamlet; Introduction (II) 'What's Hecuba to him...': Imitative Space and myths of Belonging in Hamlet; Chapter One Enclosing 'infinite riches in a little room'. The question of cultural marginality in The Jew of Malta; Chapter Two 'Here is my Space'. The Politics of Appropriation in Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter Three Erotic Sovereignty: Crises of Desire and Faith in The Winter's Tale and Henry VIII; Chapter Four The Hateful Cuckoo. Elizabeth Cary's Tragedie of Mariam, a Renaissance drama of Dispossession; Chapter Five Urban Dystopia: the Colonising of Venice in Volpone; Chapter Six 'With your ungoverned haste'. The passing of Time and Empires in The Alchemist