Renaissance Transformations

Margaret Healy is Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics and is currently completing Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lovers Complaint', Alchemy and the Creative Imagination. Thomas Healy is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Head of the School of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of books on Crashaw, Marlowe, and on Theory and Renaissance Literature. He is completing The English Boat: The Poetics of Sectarianism in Early Modern England.

• Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy, Introduction; Section One: Making Writing: Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture; 1. Thomas Healy, Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing;2. Neil Rhodes, Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse; 3. Jennifer Richards, Transforming 'A Mirror for Magistrates'; 4. Andrew Hadfield, 'Not without Mustard': Self-Publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London; Section Two: Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History; 5. Alan Stewart, The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-Thinking Authorship Through Collaboration; 6. Michelle O'Callaghan, 'The Duties of Societies': Literature, Friendship and Community; 7. Danielle Clarke, Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance Writing; 8. Bernhard Klein, The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing; Section Three: Embodying Change: Psychic and Somatic Performances; 9. Michael Schoenfeldt, Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry; 10. Margaret Healy, Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions; 11. William H. Sherman, Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in 'The Tempest'; 12. Susan Wiseman, 'A Cat On A Post': Animal Events in Seventeenth-Century Writing; Notes on Contributors; Index.