Dennis Kezar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. Most recently, he edited Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in Renaissance England (University of Notre Dame Press).

• Introduction ; 1 Courting Heresy and Taking the Subject: John Skelton's Precedent ; 2 Spenser and the Poetics of Indiscretion ; 3 The Properties of Shakespeare's Globe ; 4 The Witch of Edmonton and the Guilt of Possession ; 5 Samson's Death by Theater and Milton's Art of Dying ; 6 Guilt and the Constitution of Authorship in Henry V and the Antitheatrical Elegies of W.S. and Milton ; Index

Suggests that Renaissance artists were often conscious of the potentially destructive powerof art, and that this self-consciousness shapes their work and understanding of their own social roles as artists. This attention to the 'responsibility for the other' provides us with a new understanding that brings us closer in sensibility to the early modern period than we have been in recent years.

Dennis Kezar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. Most recently, he edited Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in Renaissance England (University of Notre Dame Press).

• Introduction ; 1 Courting Heresy and Taking the Subject: John Skelton's Precedent ; 2 Spenser and the Poetics of Indiscretion ; 3 The Properties of Shakespeare's Globe ; 4 The Witch of Edmonton and the Guilt of Possession ; 5 Samson's Death by Theater and Milton's Art of Dying ; 6 Guilt and the Constitution of Authorship in Henry V and the Antitheatrical Elegies of W.S. and Milton ; Index

Suggests that Renaissance artists were often conscious of the potentially destructive powerof art, and that this self-consciousness shapes their work and understanding of their own social roles as artists. This attention to the 'responsibility for the other' provides us with a new understanding that brings us closer in sensibility to the early modern period than we have been in recent years.

Dennis Kezar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. Most recently, he edited Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in Renaissance England (University of Notre Dame Press).

• Introduction ; 1 Courting Heresy and Taking the Subject: John Skelton's Precedent ; 2 Spenser and the Poetics of Indiscretion ; 3 The Properties of Shakespeare's Globe ; 4 The Witch of Edmonton and the Guilt of Possession ; 5 Samson's Death by Theater and Milton's Art of Dying ; 6 Guilt and the Constitution of Authorship in Henry V and the Antitheatrical Elegies of W.S. and Milton ; Index

Suggests that Renaissance artists were often conscious of the potentially destructive powerof art, and that this self-consciousness shapes their work and understanding of their own social roles as artists. This attention to the 'responsibility for the other' provides us with a new understanding that brings us closer in sensibility to the early modern period than we have been in recent years.