Ch. 1. A mingled yarn: Shakespeare and the cloth workers -- Ch. 2. Is this a holiday?: Shakespeare's Roman carnival -- Ch. 3. Like the old Robin Hood: As You Like It and the enclosure riots -- Ch. 4. Against the grain: Representing the market in Coriolanus -- Ch. 5. The quality of mercy: Discipline and punishment in Shakespearean comedy -- Ch. 6. Observations on English bodies: Licensing maternity in Shakespeare's late plays -- Ch. 7. A constant will to publish: Shakespeare's dead hand
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