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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Reflective Readers -- 1. Reading, Stage by Stage: Shakespeare's Sonnets / Vendler, Helen -- 2. Close Reading without Readings / Booth, Stephen -- 3. Troubles of a Professional Meter Reader / Wright, George T. -- PART TWO: Reading Reflexively -- 4. Hydra and Rhizome / Berger Jr., Harry -- 5. Othello and Hamlet: Dilation, Spying, and the "Secret Place " of Woman / Parker, Patricia -- 6. "To You I Give Myself, For I Am Yours": Erotic Performance and Theatrical Performatives in As You Like It / Wofford, Susanne L. -- 7. Pushing the Envelope: Supersonic Criticism / Willbern, David -- PART THREE: Reflexive Readings -- 8. The Taming of the Shrew, Good Husbandry, and Enclosure / Boose, Lynda E. -- 9. "Word Itself against the Word": Close Reading after Voloshinov / Siemon, James R. -- 10. The Critic, the Poor Player, Prince Hamlet, and the Lady in the Dark / Hodgdon, Barbara -- Contributors -- Index