This talk was given in October of 2012 at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. I was invited to speak as part of the English Department's Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium. Many thanks to the graduate students and faculty at Rutgers for giving me so much of your time and for being wonderful hosts.
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