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Contents
VOLUME I
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributors
xi
xiii
xv
Asterisked items are essays that offer focused readings of particular texts
1
Introduction
Michael Hattaway
Part One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c.1500–c.1650
1
13
2
The English Language of the Early Modern Period
Arja Nurmi
15
3
Literacy and Education
Jean R. Brink
27
4
Rhetoric
Gavin Alexander
38
5
History
Patrick Collinson
55
6
Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England
Judith H. Anderson
74
7
Early Tudor Humanism
Mary Thomas Crane
91
8
Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation
Sarah Hutton
106
9
Translation
Liz Oakley-Brown
120
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Contents
10
Mythology
Jane Kingsley-Smith
134
11
Scientific Writing
David Colclough
150
12 Publication: Print and Manuscript
Michelle O’Callaghan
160
13
177
Early Modern Handwriting
Grace Ioppolo
14 The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry
Arthur F. Marotti
190
15 Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe
Robin Robbins
221
16 Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction
Bradin Cormack
248
17
263
*Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice
Judith H. Anderson
18 *‘Law Makes the King’: Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule
Torrance Kirby
274
19 Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty
Feisal G. Mohamed
289
20 Court and Coterie Culture
Curtis Perry
304
21 *Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe
Greg Walker
320
22
329
*Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’
Martin Dzelzainis
23 The Literature of the Metropolis
John A. Twyning
337
24
352
*Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton
Peter J. Smith
25 ‘An Emblem of Themselves’: Early Renaissance Country House Poetry
Nicole Pohl
367
26 Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell
Hester Lees-Jeffries
379
Contents
vii
27
English Reformations
Patrick Collinson
396
28
*Translations of the Bible
Gerald Hammond
419
29
*Lancelot Andrewes’ Good Friday 1604 Sermon
Richard Harries
430
30 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic
Donna B. Hamilton
438
31
Catholic Writings
Robert S. Miola
449
32
Sectarian Writing
Hilary Hinds
464
33 The English Broadside Print, c.1550–c.1650
Malcolm Jones
478
34
The Writing of Travel
Peter Womack
527
35
England’s Experiences of Islam
Stephan Schmuck
543
36
Reading the Body
Jennifer Waldron
557
37
Physiognomy
Sibylle Baumbach
582
38
Dreams and Dreamers
Carole Levin
598
VOLUME II
List of Illustrations
xi
Part Two: Genres and Modes
1
39 Theories of Literary Kinds
John Roe
3
40 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics
Arthur F. Kinney
15
41
28
Epic
Rachel Falconer
42 Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama
Michael Hattaway
42
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43 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama
Michael O’Connell
60
44
*Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
A. J. Piesse
70
45
Boys’ Plays
Edel Lamb
80
46 Drama of the Inns of Court
Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston
94
47
‘Tied to rules of flattery’? Court Drama and the Masque
James Knowles
105
48
Women and Drama
Alison Findlay
123
49
Political Plays
Stephen Longstaffe
141
50
Jacobean Tragedy
Rowland Wymer
154
51
Caroline Theatre
Roy Booth
166
52 *John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity
She’s a Whore
Robyn Bolam
176
53 Local Drama and Custom
Thomas Pettitt
184
54
*The Critical Elegy
John Lyon
204
55
Allegory
Clara Mucci
214
56
Pastoral
Michelle O’Callaghan
225
57
Romance
Helen Moore
238
58
Love Poetry
Diana E. Henderson
249
59
Music and Poetry
David Lindley
264
Contents
60
*Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’
Rachel Falconer
ix
278
61 *The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Robyn Bolam
288
62
Ovidian Erotic Poems
Boika Sokolova
299
63
*John Donne’s Nineteenth Elegy
Germaine Greer
317
64
Traditions of Complaint and Satire
John N. King
326
65 Folk Legends and Wonder Tales
Thomas Pettitt
341
66 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres
of Popular Verse, 1480–1650
Malcolm Jones
359
67
Religious Verse
Elizabeth Clarke
382
68
*Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’
Judith Weil
398
69 *Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England
Molly Murray
407
70
423
Prose Fiction
Andrew Hadfield
71 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s
Montaigne, and Bacon
John Lee
437
72
Diaries and Journals
Elizabeth Clarke
447
73
Letters
Jonathan Gibson
453
Part Three: Issues and Debates
461
74
463
Identity
A. J. Piesse
75 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category?
James Knowles
474
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Contents
Was There a Renaissance Feminism?
Jean E. Howard
492
77 Drama as Text and Performance
Andrea Stevens
502
78 The Debate on Witchcraft
James Sharpe
513
79 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories
James R. Siemon
523
80
Race: A Renaissance Category?
Margo Hendricks
535
81
Writing the Nations
Nicola Royan
545
82
Early Modern Ecology
Ken Hiltner
555
Index of Names, Topics, and Institutions
569
List of Illustrations
1
2
3
The Battle of the Money-Bags and Strong-Boxes, engraving after Pieter
Bruegel the Elder (c.1570)
2
The Pope Suppressed by King Henry the Eighth, anonymous woodcut
illustrating Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (London, 1570)
7
Girolamo da Treviso, Protestant allegory showing the Pope being stoned
by the four evangelists
8
4
‘Rainbow Portrait’ of Queen Elizabeth I (c.1600)
139
5
Woodcut engraving of ‘The secretarie Alphabet’ from John De Beau
Chesne and John Baildon, A Book Containing Divers Sortes of
Hands (London, 1571)
180
William Marshall, portrait of John Donne in his shroud, engraved
frontispiece to his Devotions (London, 1634)
231
Title-page portrait of the Spanish ambassador to the court of James I,
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, count of Gondomar (1624)
359
Satirical etching known as The Monopolist or The Picture of a Patentee,
after Wenceslas Hollar (c.1641–50)
361
The emblem attached to a poem addressed to Richard Cotton,
‘Patria cuique chara’
369
10
Title page to John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (London, 1641 edn.)
405
11
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, from Richard Verstegan,
Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (Antwerp, 1592)
408
12
A New Year’s Gift for Shrews (London, c.1630)
479
13
A Good Housewife, anonymous woodcut sheet (?London, c.1600)
480
14
Satires on marriage; anonymous engraved sheets (London, 1628)
482
15
The Funeral Obsequies of Sir-All-in-New-Fashions, anonymous
engraved sheet (London, 1630)
489
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7
8
9
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16
The Contented Cuckold, anonymous etched sheet (?London, c.1660)
491
17
Hunting Money, sheet engraved by Thomas Cross (London, c.1650)
492
18
The Four Complexions, sheets engraved by William Marshall
(London, 1630s)
493
All do Ride the Ass, engraved sheet attributed to Renold Elstrack
(London, 1607)
496
‘Fool’s Head World Map’, anonymous engraved sheet (?Antwerp,
c.1590)
498
A Continued Inquisition Against Paper-Persecutors, anonymous
engraved title page to Abraham Holland, A Scourge for Paper-Persecutors
(London, 1625)
499
22
Shrovetide and Lent: pair of anonymous engraved sheets (London, 1636)
500
23
Jack a Lent by John Taylor, anonymous title-page woodcut
(London, 1620)
502
24
We Three Loggerheads, anonymous oil painting on panel (c.1650)
505
25
Behold Rome’s Monster on his Monstrous Beast (?London, 1643)
514
26
The Lamb Speaketh, bound into William Turner’s The Hunting of the
Romish Wolf (Emden, 1555)
516
27
Which of These Four … (London, 1623)
517
28
A Pass for the Romish Rabble (Amsterdam, 1624)
520
29
Title page to Thomas Walkington’s The Optic Glass of Humours
(London, 1607)
559
Title page to Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi … Historia
(Frankfurt, 1617)
562
31
Poena sequens, from Geoffrey Whitney’s Choice of Emblems (Leyden, 1586)
568
32
The True Description of a Child with Ruffs (London, 1566)
571
33
The Roaring Girl or Moll Cut-Purse, title page to the play of the
same name (London, 1611)
576
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Librarian (1566)
594
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20
21
30
34
Acknowledgements
It has been a treat to work with all the members of the editorial and production teams
at Wiley-Blackwell. Many contributors generously offered suggestions that helped
me revise my plans for the work; particular thanks to those who were willing to
contribute copy at comparatively short notice. The size of these volumes meant that
for months my wife Judi had to put up with her husband’s absence and obsessive
preoccupations: I owe her much more than a presentation copy.
Contributors
Gavin Alexander is a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University
of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ’s College. His recent publications include
Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586–1640 (2006),
Renaissance Figures of Speech (2007), co-edited with Sylvia Adamson and Katrin Ettenhuber, and an edition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writings on literature:
Sidney’s ‘The Defence of Poesy’ and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (2004).
Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor’s Professor of English in Indiana University and
author of The Growth of a Personal Voice: ‘Piers Plowman’ and ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1976),
Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing
(1984), Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English (1996), Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England
(2005), and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (2008);
she is also a co-editor of Will’s Vision of Piers Plowman (1990), Spenser’s Life and the
Subject of Biography (1996), and Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction: First-Year
English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars (2007). She is currently co-editing a book
entitled Go Figure: Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World.
Sibylle Baumbach is Assistant Professor and Research Coordinator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen. She
received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich and has taught at the University
of California Santa Barbara and at Warwick University. She currently holds a FeodorLynen Fellowship at Stanford University and has published on Shakespeare, Romantic
poetry, and the study of drama. Her current research foci include mythopoetics,
metamorphosis, and literary dialogues.
Robyn Bolam is Professor of Literature at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham.
She formerly published as Marion Lomax, and her work includes: Stage Images and
Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford (1987; repr. 2009); editions of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
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and Other Plays (1995) and Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1995; repr. 2008); the anthology
Eliza’s Babes: Four Centuries of Women’s Poetry in English 1500–1900 (2005); and essays
in Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading, Writing, Practice, ed. Deryn Rees-Jones and
Alison Marks. (2000), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays, ed.
Michael Hattaway (2002), and Plotting Early Modern London, ed. Dieter Mehl et al.
(2004).
Roy Booth is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. His particular interests in early modern literature include John
Donne’s poems and the drama of the period, especially plays related to witchcraft.
Recent publications on seventeenth-century poetry and witchcraft can be found online
on the EMLS (Early Modern Literary Studies) website. His academic blog, ‘Early
Modern Whale’, can also be found at <http://roy25booth.blogspot.com/>. He is currently working on seventeenth-century astrology, and the controversy about it in the
1650s.
Jean R. Brink is a Research Scholar at the Henry E. Huntington Library. An emeritus
professor from Arizona State University, Tempe, she is the author of Michael Drayton
Revisited (1990) and of articles on Elizabethan bibliography and biography. Recent
articles have appeared in the Sidney Journal and the John Donne Journal. She is currently
working on a documentary biography of Edmund Spenser.
Elizabeth Clarke is Reader in English at the University of Warwick, where she has
led the Perdita Project for the indexing of women’s manuscript writing, and the
Nichols project to produce a new edition of John Nichols’ Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I. She has just finished a book on the reading of the Song of
Songs in the seventeenth century: Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in SeventeenthCentury England (to be published by Palgrave Macmillan).
David Colclough is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London.
He is the author of Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England (2005) and the editor of
John Donne’s Professional Lives (2003). He has recently completed an edition of New
Atlantis for the Oxford Francis Bacon, and is currently editing volume 3 of the Oxford
Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (Sermons to the Court of Charles I).
Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, at the University
of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He previously held chairs at the universities of Sydney, Kent at Canterbury, and Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the British
Academy, and the author of The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967, 1990), The Religion of Protestants (1982), and The Birthpangs of Puritan English (1987). He has also
written on sixteenth-century historiography, with essays on William Camden. His
article on Elizabeth I is the longest in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Bradin Cormack is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University
of Chicago and Director of the Nicholson Center for British Studies there. His publications include A Power To Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of
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Common Law, 1509–1625 (2007) and The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays on
Literature and Culture, co-edited with Leonard Barkan and Sean Keilen (2008).
Mary Thomas Crane is Professor of English at Boston College. She is the co-editor
with Amy Boesky of Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara
Kiefer Lewalski (2000) and author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self and Society in
Sixteenth-Century England (1993) and Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory
(2001).
Martin Dzelzainis is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought in the
English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He edited The Prose
Works of Andrew Marvell, volume 1: 1672–1673 (2003) with Annabel Patterson, and
is general editor, with Paul Seaward, of the forthcoming Oxford University Press
edition of The Works of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. He is currently completing
The Flower in the Panther: Print and Censorship in England, 1662–1695 for Oxford
University Press.
Rachel Falconer is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield.
Amongst her publications are Orpheus Disremembered: Milton and the Myth of the Poet
Hero (1996), Hell in Contemporary Literature (2005), The Crossover Novel (2008), and as
co-editor, Face to Face: Bakhtin Studies in Russia and the West (1997).
Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at Lancaster University. She specialises in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, gender issues, and performance
practices. She is the author of Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama (1994),
A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama (1998), and Playing Spaces in Early Women’s
Drama (2006). She is co-author of Women and Dramatic Production 1550–1700
(2000), based on a research project using practical workshops and productions. She
has published essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and is currently a
general editor of the Revels Plays. She is now working on Women in Shakespeare for
the Shakespeare Dictionary series to be published by Continuum Press, followed by
Much Ado About Nothing: A Text and its Theatrical Life, to be published by
Macmillan.
Jonathan Gibson works at the English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University
of London. He has published research on a wide range of early modern topics, including letters, Elizabethan court poetry, the writings of Elizabeth I, manuscript construction, and Shakespeare, and is currently working on a book about the manuscripts of
the courtier-poet Arthur Gorges.
Germaine Greer is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Studies, University of Warwick. Her books include The Female Eunuch (1969), The Obstacle Race: The
Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work (1975), Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of
Seventeenth-Century Women’s Verse (1988), Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the
Woman Poet (1995), John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2000), The Boy (2003), Whitefella
Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood (2004), and Shakespeare’s Wife (2007). She is
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also founder-director of Stump Cross Books, which publishes scholarly editions of
work by early modern women.
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author
of a number of books, including Spenser’s Irish Experience (1997) and Shakespeare and
Republicanism (2005), and the editor of others, including (with Matthew Dimmock)
The Religions of the Book: Christian Perceptions, 1400–1660 (2008), and (with Raymond
Gillespie) The Oxford History of the Irish Book, III: The Irish Book in English, 1550–1800
(2006).
Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her
publications include Virgil and The Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (1990); Shakespeare
and the Politics of Protestant England (1992); Religion, Literature and Politics in PostReformation England, 1540–1688 (edited with Richard Strier, 1996); Anthony Munday
and the Catholics, 1560–1633 (2005); A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature (edited, 2006); and an edition of The Puritan (2007), in Thomas Middleton: The
Collected Works (general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino).
Gerald Hammond was the John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at
the University of Manchester. He is the author of Fleeting Things: English Poets and
Poems 1616–1660 (1990), The Making of the English Bible (1982), and The Reader and
Shakespeare’s Young Man Sonnets (1981).
Richard Harries was bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. On his retirement he was
made a life peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth). He is currently Gresham Professor of
Divinity, and an Honorary Professor of Theology, at King’s College, London. He is
the author of books on a range of subjects, including Art and the Beauty of God (1993),
The Passion in Art (2004), and The Re-enchantment of Morality (2008). He is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature.
Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, in the University of
Sheffield and Professor of English at New York University in London. His publications include (as author) Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982); Hamlet: The Critics Debate
(1987); Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature
(2005); William Shakespeare: King Richard II (2008); (as editor) As You Like It and 1–3
Henry VI for the New Cambridge Shakespeare; plays by Jonson and Beaumont; The
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002); and (as co-editor) The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990 and 2003) and Shakespeare in the
New Europe (1994).
Diana E. Henderson is a Professor in the Literature Faculty at MIT, and also teaches
in the Comparative Media Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programmes.
She is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and
Media (2006), and Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance
(1995), and is the editor of Alternative Shakespeares 3 (2007), and Blackwell’s Concise
Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (2006).
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Margo Hendricks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the
University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the co-editor, with Patricia Parker, of
Women, Race and Writing in the Early Modern Period (1994). Other publications include
articles on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Behn, and on race and post-colonial identity.
Ken Hiltner is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California Santa
Barbara, where he is the Director of the Early Modern Center, as well as the Director
of the Literature and the Environment Initiative. In addition to his book Milton and
Ecology (2003), he has recently edited a collection of essays, Renaissance Ecology (2008).
He is currently working on two books on ecocriticism.
Hilary Hinds teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster
University. Her publications include God’s Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Sectarian
Writing and Feminist Criticism (1996), an edition of Anna Trapnel’s The Cry of a Stone
(2000), and (co-edited with Elspeth Graham, Elaine Hobby, and Helen Wilcox) Her
Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (1989).
Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches Renaissance literature, feminist studies, and literary theory.
Her books include Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response
(1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); Engendering a
Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997), co-written with
Phyllis Rackin; and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598–1642 (2007),
which won the Barnard Hewitt Prize for outstanding work in theatre history for 2008.
In addition, Professor Howard is one of the co-editors of the Norton Shakespeare and
has edited seven collections of essays.
Sarah Hutton currently holds a chair at Aberystwyth University. Her publications
include Anne Conway (2004), Benjamin Furly (1646–1714) (2007), Women, Science and
Medicine (edited with Lynette Hunter, 1996), and Platonism and the English Imagination
(edited with Anna Baldwin, 1994). She has also published articles on the Cambridge
Platonists, Margaret Cavendish, Emilie du Châtelet, and Catharine Macaulay. She
co-ordinates the AHRC research network on Anglo-French intellectual and cultural
interchange. She is Director of the series International Archives of the History of Ideas.
Grace Ioppolo is Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. She is also
the founder and director of the Henslowe–Alleyn Digitisation Project. Her publications include Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton
and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse (2006) as well as Revising Shakespeare (1991) and Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes (2000). She has
produced critical editions of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Measure for Measure, and
Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent, and has published numerous articles on textual
transmission and manuscript culture. She is the general editor of the ten-volume
Complete Works of Thomas Heywood (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). With
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Peter Beal she has co-edited Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (2007), a collection
of essays on manuscripts written by, to, or for Queen Elizabeth, and English Manuscript
Studies 11: Manuscripts and their Makers in the English Renaissance (2002). With S. P.
Cerasano, she is preparing a critical edition for Oxford University Press of Edward
Alleyn’s Diary.
Malcolm Jones lectures in English language, literature, folklore and art history at
the University of Sheffield. Before entering academia he worked in the British Museum
and other museums and as a lexicographer. His book on the folkloric in late medieval
European art, The Secret Middle Ages, won the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award (2003).
More recently he has been working in the early modern period and his The Print in
Early Modern England appears in 2010. Recent publications include ‘Washing the
Ass’s Head – Exploring the Non-Religious Prints’, in M. McDonald (ed.), The Print
Collection of Ferdinand Columbus (2004), 221–45, ‘Saints and other horse-mutilators,
or why all Englishmen have tails’, in S. Hartmann (ed.), Flora in the Middle Ages
(2007), 155–70, and ‘ “Lively representing the proverbs”: A Pack of Late SeventeenthCentury English playing cards engraved with proverb representations’, in K. Mckenna
(ed.), The Proverbial ‘Pied Piper’: A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang
Mieder on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (2009), 5–30.
John N. King presently holds an appointment as Distinguished University Professor,
and as Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and of Religious Studies, at
the Ohio State University. His expertise extends to early modern British literature
and culture, Reformation literary and cultural history, the history of the book, manuscript studies, and iconography. His books include English Reformation Literature: The
Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (1982), Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and
Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (1989), Spenser’s Poetry and the Reformation Tradition
(1990), Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost (2000),
Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook (2004), and Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and
Early Modern English Print Culture (2006). He serves as editor of Reformation and coeditor of Literature and History. He is the recipient of a residency at the Rockefeller
Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, Italy, and of fellowships from the American
Council of Learned Societies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lilly Endowment in conjunction with the
National Humanities Center.
Jane Kingsley-Smith is a Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, London. She
has published a number of articles on Shakespeare, and a monograph entitled Shakespeare’s Drama of Exile (2003). Her second book, Cupid in Early Modern Literature and
Culture, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director, Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, at the University of MassachusettsAmherst. In 2006 he was given the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement
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Award by the Renaissance Society of America. His most recent books are Shakespeare’s
Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama (2004), and Shakespeare and Cognition
(2006).
Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for
Research on Religion at McGill University. His most recent books are The Zurich
Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007) and Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist
(2005). He recently edited two collections of essays, A Companion to Richard Hooker
(2008) and A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli (2009).
James Knowles is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Head of
School, School of English, University College Cork, Ireland. He teaches widely on
early modern drama (especially Jonson, and the masque), Civil War writing, and on
the cultural politics of the 1620s and 1630s. His publications include editions for
the Oxford University Press Complete Works of Thomas Middleton, the Cambridge
University Press Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson, and the Oxford Works of John Milton.
In 2006 he was the co-curator for Royalist Refugees (Rubenshuis, Antwerp), and he
has written extensively on the masque, and on Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s
Burse.
Edel Lamb in an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow in the University
of Sydney. She is the author of Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The
Children’s Playing Companies (1599–1613) (2008) and is currently writing a booklength study of early modern books for children.
John Lee is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol. He is the editor of the
Everyman edition of Spenser’s Shorter Poems: A Selection (1998) and the author of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Controversies of Self (2000). Recent articles include ‘Montaigne,
Shakespeare and imagination’ in the International Shakespeare Yearbook (2006), and
‘Shakespeare and the Great War’ in The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century British
and Irish War Poetry (2007).
Hester Lees-Jeffries is Fellow and College Lecturer at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is the author of England’s Helicon: Fountains in Early Modern Literature and
Culture (2007), and of other essays on early modern literature; she has also edited the
translation of Bernard Palissy’s treatise on water-supply by the Elizabethan poet
Thomas Watson. She is currently working on various Shakespeare projects and editing
James Shirley’s The Example.
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, where she specialises in early modern English history. Her books include
The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (1994),
The Reign of Elizabeth I (2002), and Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and
Desire in Court and Country (2008). She was recently the co-curator of the exhibition
‘To Sleep, Perchance to Dream’ at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,
DC.