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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University at Buffalo Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

A portion of chapter 1 was previously published as “Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality in Philaster,” Renaissance Drama 44, no. 1 (2016): 25–52; copyright 2016 by Northwestern University.

Copyright 2020 by Christine Varnado

The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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