Helga L. Duncan is Professor of English, Emerita, at Stonehill College, where she won the Hegarty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. She earned a BA from the University of Colorado, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Comparative Drama, Early Theatre, and elsewhere. Her recent work has focused on early modern English perceptions and constructions of sacred space, particularly in relation to gender.

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• Introduction: Gender and the Place of the Sacred 1: Penitential Geography in Books 1 and 2 of The Faerie Queene: Mobility and Emplacement 2: The Perversion of Godly Domesticity: Guyon and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss 3: Temple and Tower: The Dissolution of Sacred Space in Hero and Leander 4: "Here in the Skirts of the Forest": Comedy and the Places of the Sacred in As You Like It 5: "The Hole in the Wall": Sacred Space and Third Space in The Family of Love Conclusion: Sacred Space on Page and Stage

Helga L. Duncan is Professor of English, Emerita, at Stonehill College, where she won the Hegarty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. She earned a BA from the University of Colorado, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Comparative Drama, Early Theatre, and elsewhere. Her recent work has focused on early modern English perceptions and constructions of sacred space, particularly in relation to gender.

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• Introduction: Gender and the Place of the Sacred 1: Penitential Geography in Books 1 and 2 of The Faerie Queene: Mobility and Emplacement 2: The Perversion of Godly Domesticity: Guyon and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss 3: Temple and Tower: The Dissolution of Sacred Space in Hero and Leander 4: "Here in the Skirts of the Forest": Comedy and the Places of the Sacred in As You Like It 5: "The Hole in the Wall": Sacred Space and Third Space in The Family of Love Conclusion: Sacred Space on Page and Stage

Helga L. Duncan is Professor of English, Emerita, at Stonehill College, where she won the Hegarty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. She earned a BA from the University of Colorado, and an MA and PhD from Brown University. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Comparative Drama, Early Theatre, and elsewhere. Her recent work has focused on early modern English perceptions and constructions of sacred space, particularly in relation to gender.

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• Introduction: Gender and the Place of the Sacred 1: Penitential Geography in Books 1 and 2 of The Faerie Queene: Mobility and Emplacement 2: The Perversion of Godly Domesticity: Guyon and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss 3: Temple and Tower: The Dissolution of Sacred Space in Hero and Leander 4: "Here in the Skirts of the Forest": Comedy and the Places of the Sacred in As You Like It 5: "The Hole in the Wall": Sacred Space and Third Space in The Family of Love Conclusion: Sacred Space on Page and Stage