Renaissance Configurations : Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1580-1690

Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists.

Preface: Renaissance Configurations; G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY ''Infinite Riches in a Little Room'': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet; J. Knowles Shakespeare ''Creepes into the Women''s Closets about Bedtime'': Women Reading in a Room of Their Own; S. Roberts ''A Book, and Solitariness'': Melancholia Gender and Literary Subjectivity in Mary Wroth''s Urania ; H. Hackett PART II: DESIRING DIFFERENCE Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao ; M. Pincombe ''With Phoebus'' Amorous Pinches Black'': the Desirability of Difference in Early Modern Culture; K Chedgzoy A Rose for Emilia: Collaborative Relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen ; G. Kinsmen PART III: NAMING/LOCATING Space for the Self: Place, Persona, and Self-Projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles ; A. Piesse Calling Things By Their Names'': Troping Prostitution, Politics, and The Dutch Courtesan ; M. Thornton Burnett PART IV: VOICING THE PAST Spectres and Sisters: Mary Sidney and the `Perennial Puzzle'' of Renaissance Women''s Writing; S. Trill What Echo Says in Seventeenth-Century Women''s Poetry: Wroth, Behn; S.J. Wiseman Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips; R. Ballaster Afterword; A. Thompson