Shakespeare and Donne

Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor's Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English; Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (Fordham); and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (Fordham).Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean- Jacques and Aurore Labbé Fournet / Board of Regents Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the author of Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (2008) and Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England (2012); she is also the coeditor of Grief and Gender: 700– 1700 (2003) and the editor of Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (2010).

• Contributors: Judith H. Anderson, Mary Blackstone, Matthias Bauer, Marshall Grossman, Julian Lamb, Catherine Gimelli Martin, David Lee Miller, Jennifer Pacenza, Jeanne Shami, Anita Gilman Sherman, Douglas Trevor, Jennifer C. Vaught, Angelika Zirker

"Because of the compartmentalization of literary criticism, we have been largely blind to the many points of intellectual and artistic contact between the two greatest English love poets of the later sixteenth- and early seventeenth centuries, Shakespeare and Donne. This remarkable collection of highly original essays changes that. It also changes the field of English Renaissance studies." -- -Gordon Teskey Harvard University "By performing theorized, rigorously researched, intertextual study so consistently, chapter by chapter, with coherence across its parts (if not always overtly within them), Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary is a model for how one might attempt such dialogues between other writers-how to place their works side by side in ways that illuminate the authors; the period(s) in which they are writing; the various genres, modes, and literary devices they employ; and the theoretical lenses that one might use to derive meaning from such a pairing." -Shakespeare Quarterly