Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on transcriptions, references and abbreviations; INTRODUCTION The signs of friendship; Mental husbandry; THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS; ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP The textuality of amicitia; Anxieties of textual access; FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO PRUDENT CAPTAIN Masculinity and 'romantic' fiction; USURERS' DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s; The theatre of clandestine marriage; HOUSEHOLD STUFF Terence in the Reformation.