The Uses of this World

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