Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Hermeneutics in Shakespeare's London; I Europe, England: Contextualizing Shakespeare's Bible; Chapter 1 The Bible in Transition in the Age of Shakespeare: A European Perspective; Chapter 2 The Trouble with Translation: Paratexts and England's Bestselling New Testament; II Stagings: Reformation Reading Practices in the Theater; Chapter 3 John 6, Measure for Measure, and the Complexities of the Literal Sense.

Chapter 4 Words of Diverse Significations: Hamlet's Puns, Amphibology, and Allegorical HermeneuticsChapter 5 England's Jerusalem in Shakespeare's Henriad; Chapter 6 Discontented Harmonies: Words against Words in Pomfret Castle; III Interplay: Biblical Forms and Other Genres; Chapter 7 Titus Andronicus and the Rhetoric of Lamentation; Chapter 8 The Acts of Pericles: Shakespeare's Biblical Romance; Chapter 9 Finding Pygmalion in the Bible: Classical and Biblical Allusion in The Winter's Tale; IV Enactment: Hermeneutics and the Social.

Chapter 10 Shylock in the Lion's Den: Enacting Exegesis in The Merchant of VeniceChapter 11 Maimed Rites and Whirling Words in Hamlet; Chapter 12 Political Theology from the Pulpit and the Stage: Sir Thomas More, Richard II, and Henry V; Afterword: Shakespeare's Biblical Virtues; Notes; Index.