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INTRODUCTION: "Overglanc[ing] the superscript" (4.2.116) I - A NEVER-NAVARRE WORLD: FROM UCHRONY TO UTOPIA 1. Time out of joint 2. A palimpsest garden 3. Babelian Navarre 4. Navarre's hunting ground II - ALTERNATIVE ACADEMES 1. "Dost thou infamomise me among potentates?"(5.2.659): looking for glory 2. Men only please! 3. Navarre's symposium 4. Ideal rules of courtesy III - CIPHERS, LETTERS, AND LITERACY ON STAGE 1. The arithmetic of love 2. "Mounsieur, are you not lettered?" (5.1.39): language skills 3. Linguistic signifiers 4. The uses of literacy 5. Humanist philology and "Straunge Ynkehorne Termes" IV - THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER: RELIGIOUS UNDERTONES 1. The massacre at Navarre 2. From pedagogy to tyranny 3. The threat of holofernes 4. Shakespeare's "misterming clowne" 5. Text-based worship V - THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS ON STAGE 1. Sonneteering lords and ladies' tongues 2. Naming, renaming, misnaming 3. The wooing of the sign 4. The rival poets VI - THE ANATOMY OF DESIRE 1. Anatomised bodies and annothanised texts 2. A boys' kingdom 3. "Signor Junior" (3.1.157) 4. The circulation of love and death VII - THEATRICAL LAUGHTER 1. Will vs. wit 2. Staging the obscene 3. Scatological exchanges 4. Shaming rituals VIII - NON FINITO 1. "Not yet? No dance!" (5.2.212) 2. Songs without tunes 3. Mucovites and worthies: a flawed diptych 4. The sense of an ending CONCLUSION: Et in Arcadia ego

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