Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Chronology xviKathleen Bossert
Map of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Sixteenth Century xxxi
Introduction 1Kent Cartwright
Part I Historical and Cultural Contexts 13
1 The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism 15Peter Marshall
2 Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland 31Kathryn A. Edwards
3 The Tudor Experience of Islam 49Matthew Dimmock
4 Protestantism, Profi t, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World 63Nancy Bradley Warren
5 International Infl uences and Tudor Music 79Ross W. Duffin
6 Tudor Technology in Transition 95Adam Max Cohen
7 Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin 111Tanya Pollard
Part II Manuscript, Print, and Letters 123
8 Manuscripts in Tudor England 125Steven W. May and Heather Wolfe
9 John Skelton and the State of Letters 140Seth Lerer
10 The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others 151David R. Carlson
11 Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology 178Helen Smith
12 Printers of Interludes 192Peter Happé
Part III Literary Origins, Presences, Absences 211
13 Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature 213Deanne Williams
14 The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama 228Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson
15 French Presences in Tudor England 246A. E. B. Coldiron
16 Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn’t a Woman Be More Like a Man? 261Pamela J. Benson
Part IV Authors, Works, and Modes 277
17 More’s Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism 279Anne Lake Prescott
18 The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew 295Joan Pong Linton
19 Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton’s Needle 309Robert Hornback
20 Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter 324Pamela Allen Brown
21 Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance 339Alastair Fowler
22 Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge 350Gavin Alexander
23 Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter 364Jeff Dolven
24 John Lyly’s Galatea: Politics and Literary Allusion 381Mike Pincombe
25 Sidney’s Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader 395Clare R. Kinney
26 Nature and Technê in Spenser’s Faerie Queene 412Jessica Wolfe
27 “In Poesie the mirrois of our Age”: The Countess of Pembroke’s “Sydnean” Poetics 428Suzanne Trill
28 “Conceived of young Horatio his son”: The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge 444Heather Hirschfeld
29 West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine 459Kimberly Anne Coles
30 The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing 475Mary C. Fuller
31 Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History 489Steve Mentz
Index 504