AUCTOR LUDENS: Essays on Play in Literature -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- Pre-Lude -- FROM SPELLS TO SPILLS -- NOTES -- SUPERLIMINAL NOTE -- NOTES -- Part I: Authors at Play -- Playing with the Audience -- TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE, OR A NIGHT'S DALLIANCE -- NOTES -- BRECHT AND THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS -- NOTES -- Playing with the Canon -- HAGIOGRAPHIC (DIS)PLAY: CHAUCER'S "THE MILLER'S TALE" -- NOTES -- PLAYING WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: AUCTOR LUDENS, DIABOLUS LUDICRUS -- NOTES -- Playing with Authorship -- ACTS OF WILLFUL PLAY -- NOTES -- THE PLAYFUL ATOMS OF JORGE LUIS BORGES -- NOTES -- Inter-Lude -- Play-Translations -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- Part II: The Games of Literature -- Literature as Game of Pleasure -- AMOROUS AGON, EROTIC FLYTING: SOME PLAY-MOTIFS IN THE LITERATURE OF LOVE -- NOTES -- FROM PLAY TO PLAYS: THE FOLKLORE OF COMEDY -- NOTES -- WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON RHYME -- NOTES -- Literature and Role-Playing -- PLAYING FOR LIFE IN DONNE'S ELEGIES, SONGS AND SONNETS -- NOTES -- THE GAMES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN "THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" -- NOTES -- Literature as Existential Play -- GAMES FOR DEATH AND TWO MAIDENS -- II -- III -- NOTES -- GODOT'S GAMES AND BECKETT'S LATE PLAYS -- NOTES -- Post-Lude -- LIST OF WORKS CITED -- NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.