Table of Contents

The Names Two Bodies: Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and the Politics of Correspondence - Deneen M. Senasi "Of that wide gap": Liminality and the Gap of Time in The Winter's Tale - Kara McCabe "To kill a wife with kindness": Contextualizing Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew - Kristen N. Gragg The Harvest of Mysticism in English Renaissance Literature: Ascesis in Spenser and Shakespeare-"silencing the tumult of the flesh" - Robert Lanier Reid A House of Spiderwebs: George Herbert and the Estate Poem - William A. Coulter The Judith Narrative in Margaret Tyler's Mirror of Princely Deeds - Rachel M. De Smith Roberts Knowing Owen: Merry and Satirical Epitaphs on a Butler of Christ Church, Oxford - Faith Acker Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson: Ladies Spaces, Boy Actors, and Wit - Sonia Desai Parnassus Commodified: Ben Jonson and the Printing of Value - Ward J. Risvold

About the Author

JAMES PEARCE is Director of Graduate Studies in English at North Carolina Central University. WILLIAM GIVEN is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University.