The Historical renaissance: new essays on Tudor and Stuart literature and culture

Introduction : the historical renaissance / Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier

A Tudor queen finds voice : Katherine Parr's Lamentation of a sinner / Janel Mueller

Ideas of resistance before Elizabeth / Donald R. Kelley

Descanting on deformity : Richard III and the shape of history / Marjorie Garber

Faithful servants : Shakespeare's praise of disobedience / Richard Strier

Cymbeline and the unease of topicality / Leah S. Marcus

Sidney and his queen / Maureen Quilligan

"The sun in water" : Donne's Somerset epithalamium and the poetics of patronage / Heather Dubrow

Law and ideology : the civil law and theories of absolutism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England / Brian P. Levak.

"Subject to ev'ry mounters bended knee" : Herbert and authority / Michael C. Schoenfeldt

Barbarous tongues : the ideology of poetic form in Renaissance England / Richard Helgerson

Sir Philip Sidney and the uses of history / Arthur F. Kinney

Spenser, Bacon, and the myth of power / Clark Hulse

From matron to monster : Tudor-Stuart London and the languages of urban description / Lawrence Manley.