9780521454711, 0521454719, 9780521455893, 0521455898, and 0521455898 (pbk.)
Description:
xvii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The ideology of superfluous things: King Lear as period piece / Margreta de Grazia -- "Rude mechanicals" / Patricia Parker -- Spenser's domestic domain: poetry, property, and the Early Modern subject / Louis A. Montrose -- Gendering the crown / Stephen Orgel -- The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile, The Flowers of french poetry, and Other soothing things / Nancy J. Vickers -- Dematerializations: textile and textual properties in Ovid, Sandys, and Spenser / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Freedom, service, and trade in slaves: the problem of labor in Paradise lost / Maureen Quilligan -- Feathers and flies: Aphra Behn and the seventeenth-century trade in exotica / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Unlearning the Aztec cantares (preliminaries to a postcolonial history) / Gary Tomlinson -- Worn worlds: clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage / Peter Stallybrass -- The Countess of Pembroke's literal translation / Jonathan Goldberg -- Remnants of the sacred in Early Modern England / Stephen Greenblatt -- The insincerity of women / Marjorie Garber -- Desire is death / Jonathan Dollimore.