'… lapses are rare in this valuable book … we hope that it encourages publishers, often dubious about collections, to publish them-and personnel committees to celebrate the achievements of their editors.' Heather Dubrow, Renaissance Quarterly
Part I. Generic Transitions: 1. The English sonnet: cycles and recycling Catherine Bates; 2. Romance: traditions and innovations Kenneth Borris; 3. Drama: forming an audience Lois Potter; 4. Pageants, masques, and entertainments: old rituals, new forms Lauren Shohet; 5. Arts of rhetoric: antique and modern Jenny C. Mann; Part II. Literature and Ideological Transformation: 6. Lyric and spiritualism: John Donne's 'The Ecstasy' Douglas Trevor; 7. Romance and the boundaries of genre and gender Andrew Hadfield; 8. Drama and globalization in early modern England Daniel J. Vitkus; 9. The court masque: art and politics Peter Holbrook; 10. Prose, science, and scripture: Francis Bacon's sacred texts Katherine Bootle Attié; Part III. Literature and Cultural Transformation: 11. Lyric and scientific epistemologies: Bacon and Donne Liza Blake; 12. Romance and the early modern cultures of the book Sarah Wall-Randell; 13. Drama and commodity culture in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Bradley D. Ryner; 14. Pageantry and politics: the anxiety of arrival Tom Bishop; 15. Prose and the public sphere David Colclough; Part IV. Literature and Local Transformation: 16. 'Hard to meter well': psalms and early modern English poetry Lucía Martínez Valdivia; 17. Romance, magical space, and Wroth's Urania Sheila Cavanagh; 18. Drama and the playhouse Lucy Munro; 19. Greek tragedy on the university stage: Buchanan and Euripides Hannah Crawforth and Lucy Jackson; 20. Prose and the pulpit Lori Anne Ferrell.