Съдържание:
  • Introduction : placing women in the English Renaissance / Betty S. Travitsky
  • Counterattacks on "the bayter of women" : three pamphleteers of the early seventeenth century / Ann Rosalind Jones
  • The power of integrity in Massinger's women / Ira Clark
  • "Maydes are simple, some men say" : Thomas Campion's female persona poems / Gail Reitenbach
  • "Strike all that look upon with mar[b]le" : monumentalizing women in Shakespeare's plays / Abbe Blum
  • Sin and the politics of penitence : three Jacobean adulteresses / Anne M. Haselkorn
  • Style and gender in Elizabeth Canary's Edward II / Tina Krontiris
  • Representing political androgyny : more on the Siena portrait of Queen Elizabeth I / Constance Jordan
  • The queen's two bodies and the divided emperor : some problems of identity in Antony and Cleopatra / Clare Kinney
  • Radigund revisited : perspectives on women rulers in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Josephine A. Roberts
  • Griselda, Renaissance woman / Judith Bronfman
  • Puritan preaching and the politics of the family / R. Valerie Lucas
  • "His wife's prayers and meditations" : MS Egerton 607 / Betty S. Travitsky
  • "To the angell spirit ..." : Mary Sidney's entry into the "world of words" / Beth Wynne Fisken
  • An unknown continent : Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, "Loves victorie" / Margaret Anne McLaren
  • Rewriting lyric fictions : the role of the lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Naomi J. Miller
  • Feminine endings : the sexual politics of Sidney's and Spenser's rhyming / Maureen Quilligan
  • The countess of Pembroke and gendered reading / Gary F. Waller
  • Current bibliography of English women writers, 1500-1640 / Elaine V. Beilin.