Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Part I: Introduction: 1. Introduction: Michael Hattaway. Part II: Contexts and Perspectives ca 1500-1650: 2. Early Tudor 'Humanism': Mary T. Crane. 3. English Reformations: Patrick Collinson. 4. Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation: Sarah Hutton. 5. History: Patrick Collinson. 6. The English Language of the Early Modern Period: N. F. Blake. 7. Publication: Print and Manuscript: Michelle O'Callaghan. 8. Literacy and Education: Jean R. Brink. 9. Court and Coterie Culture: Curtis Perry. 10. The Literature of the Metropolis: John A. Twyning. 11. Playhouses and the Role of Drama: Michael Hattaway. 12. The Writing of Travel: Peter Womack. Part III: Readings: 13. Translations of the Bible: Gerald Hammond. 14. Wyatt's 'Who So List to Hunt': Rachel Falconer. 15. Courtship and Counsell: John Lyly's Campaspe: Greg Walker. 16. Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics, and Justice: Judith Anderson. 17. Kyd's Spanish Tragedy: Amanda Piesse. 18. Donne's 19th Elergy: Germaine Greer. 19. Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst': Nicole Pohl. 20. A Bacon Essay ('Of Simulation and Dissimulation'): Martin Dzelzainis. 21. Lancelot Andrewes Good Friday 1604 Sermon: Richard Harries. 22. Herbert's 'The Elixir': Judith Weil. 23. The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: Robyn Bolam. 24. The Critical Elegy: John Lyon. 25. The final scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Robyn Bolam. Part IV: Genres and Modes: 26. Theories of Literary Kinds: John Roe. 27. Allegory: Clara Mucci. 28. Pastoral: Michelle O'Callaghan. 29. Romance: Helen Moore. 30. Epic: Rachel Falconer. 31. Criticism: Arthur Kinney. 32. The English Print c. 1550-c. 1650: Malcolm Jones. Verse. 33. Traditions of Complaint and Satire: John King. 34. Love Poetry: Diana Henderson. 35. Erotic Poems: Boika Sokolova. 36. Religious Verse: Elizabeth Clarke. 37. Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe: Robin Robbins. 38. 'Such Pretty Things Would Soon be Gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse 1480-1650: Malcolm Jones. Drama. 39. Local and Customary Drama: Thomas Pettitt. 40. Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama: Michael O'Connell. 41. Heroic, Political, and Problem Plays: Stephen Longstaffe. 42. Women and Drama: Alison Findlay. 43. Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton: Peter J. Smith. 44. 'Tied/To Rules of Flattery? ': Court Drama and the Masque: James Knowles. 45. Jacobean Tragedy: Rowland Wymer. 46. Caroline Theatre: Roy Booth. Prose. 47. Scientific Writing: David Colclough. 48. Prose Fiction: Andrew Hadfield. 49. Theological Writings and Religious Polemic: Donna Hamilton. 50. The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon: John Lee. 51. Diaries: Elizabeth Clarke. 52. Letters: Jonathan Gibson. Part V: Issues and Debates: 53. Rhetoric: Marion Trousdale. 54. Identity: A. J. Piesse. 55. Was There a Renaissance Feminism?: Jean Howard. 56. The Debate on Witchcraft: James Sharpe. 57. Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories: James R. Siemon. 58. Sexuality: A Renaissance Category?: James Knowles. 59. Race: A Renaissance Category: Margo Hendricks. 60. Writing the Nation: Nicola Royan.