Marcie Frank (External Editor) Marcie Frank is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.Jonathan Goldberg (External Editor) Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Emory University.Karen Newman (External Editor) Karen Newman is Owen Walker '33 Professor of Humanities and Professor ofComparative Literature and English at Brown University.

"From Spenser's toxic slime to Persian story theater, with way-stations that include Marlovian foot-stools, Horatian friendship, and Paracelsian ecology, this sparkling and timely collection of essays visits a dazzling range of world-making aspirations in Renaissance and early modern literature." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton The University of California, Irvine

• Preface Introduction: World Enough and Time Jonathan Goldberg (with Karen Newman and Marcie Frank) I. Materiality 1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene Brent Dawson 2. Extreme Cary David Glimp 3. Marlowe's Footstools Aaron Kunin II. Sociality 4. "Who Is Speaking Here?": Shakespeare's Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University Robert Matz 5. Hamlet and the Truth About Friendship James Kuzner 6. "Racked ... to the Uttermost": The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice Lara Bovilsky 7. Cities of the Stranger Meredith Evans III. Universality 8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion Daniel Juan Gil 9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm/Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne Lynn Maxwell 10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli's Dastan Madhavi Menon Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index