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Cover -- Staging Touch In Shakespeare's England -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note On Texts -- Introduction: Redefining Touch -- Redefinitions -- Staging Touch -- An Anatomy Of Contact -- 1: Guided By Her Foot, Which Is Basest: Dominance, Submission, And Resistance At The Body's Base -- Spurns Her -- Sweet Wench, Let Me Lick Thy Toes -- Thou Shalt No More / Descend Unto My Foot -- Horsing Foot On Foot -- 2: Lady, Shall I Lie In Your Lap?: Hierarchy, Reciprocity, And The Female Touch -- Thy Head So Childishlie Laid On A Womans Lap Quick, Quick, That I May Lay My Head In Thy Lap -- Lay Then Your Head Upon My Lap Sweet Lord -- Lady, Shall I Lie In Your Lap? -- 3: Untwine Those Arms: Embraces, Marching Arm In Arm, And Contested Intimacy -- Here I Clip / The Anvil Of My Sword -- Haling Of My Lord / From Gaveston -- Arm In Arm, Like Loving Friends[?] -- 4: What Mean These Hands?: Ambivalence, Agency, And Negotiation -- Come, Friendes: Clap Hands, Tis A Bargaine -- Let's Go Hand In Hand, Not One Before The Other -- Let Each Man Render Me His Bloody Hand -- I Give My Hand, And With My Hand, My Heart 5: Makers Of Manners: Rethinking Kissing On The Early Modern Stage -- I Had As Lief They Would Break Wind In My Lips -- You Kiss By Th' Book -- Coda: Reunions -- Bibliography -- Index Alex Macconochie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.