Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. Falstaff's Conveyances -- 2. "Creditors and Others": The Purpose of 13 Eliz., c. 5 (1571) -- 3. Carried Away in Arcadia -- 4. Purchase and Consideration in Faerie Queene IV and V -- 5. Coke, Collusion, and Twyne's Case (1601) -- 6. Shylock's Penalty -- Conclusion -- Index