Introduction

image ethics

1-29

Harnessing the visual

from illustration to ekphrasis

31-46

From visible to invisible

Spenser's "Aprill" and messianic ethics

47-65

Looking for ethics in Spenser's Faerie queene

67-98

"To look, but with another's eyes"

translating vision in a Midsummer night's dream

99-120

The ethics of temporality in Measure for measure

121-141

"Ocular proof" and the dangers of the perceptual faith

143-160

"Disliken the truth of your own seeming"

visual and ethical truth in the Winter's tale

161-182