| Introduction: Worlds Within and Without | 3 |
| The Insincerity of Women | 19 |
| Mistaken Identities: Castiglio(ne)'s Practical Joke | 39 |
| The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire | 61 |
| Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser's Gardens of Adonis | 91 |
| Embodied Voices: Petrarch Reading (Himself Reading) Ovid | 120 |
| Through the Optic Glass: Voyeurism and Paradise Lost | 146 |
| Libidinal Economies: Machiavelli and Fortune's Rape | 169 |
| Female Friends and Fraternal Enemies in As You Like It | 184 |
| From Virgil to Tasso: The Epic Topos as an Uncanny Return | 207 |
| Writing the Specular Son: Jonson, Freud, Lacan, and the (K)not of Masculinity | 233 |
| List of Contributors | 261 |
| Index | 263 |
