Mike Pincombe is Professor of Tudor and Elizabethan Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; he convened the Tudor Symposium between 1998 and 2009. He has written books on John Lyly (1996) and Elizabethan Humanism (2001), and also essays and articles on a range of mid-Tudor topics. He is presently working on William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates.Cathy Shrank is Reader in Tudor Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2006) and essays and articles on various Tudor and Shakespearean topics, including language reform, civility, travel writing, cheap print, and mid-sixteenth-century sonnets. She is currently working on an edition of Shakespeare's poems and a monograph on non-dramatic dialogue in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

In their readiness to challenge assumptions, to re-think theoretical paradigms, and to hold possibilities, alternatives, and contradictions productively in play, these and many other essays in this volume do justice to the dense and complex literature of this period, modelling that literatures best features its ambition, polemic, and debate in its own pages and, in that respect, providing a model to us all.

• SECTION I: 1485-1529 ; SECTION II: 1530-1559 ; SECTION III: 1560-1579 ; SECTION IV: 1580-1603

Mike Pincombe is Professor of Tudor and Elizabethan Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; he convened the Tudor Symposium between 1998 and 2009. He has written books on John Lyly (1996) and Elizabethan Humanism (2001), and also essays and articles on a range of mid-Tudor topics. He is presently working on William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates.Cathy Shrank is Reader in Tudor Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2006) and essays and articles on various Tudor and Shakespearean topics, including language reform, civility, travel writing, cheap print, and mid-sixteenth-century sonnets. She is currently working on an edition of Shakespeare's poems and a monograph on non-dramatic dialogue in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

In their readiness to challenge assumptions, to re-think theoretical paradigms, and to hold possibilities, alternatives, and contradictions productively in play, these and many other essays in this volume do justice to the dense and complex literature of this period, modelling that literatures best features its ambition, polemic, and debate in its own pages and, in that respect, providing a model to us all.

• SECTION I: 1485-1529 ; SECTION II: 1530-1559 ; SECTION III: 1560-1579 ; SECTION IV: 1580-1603

Mike Pincombe is Professor of Tudor and Elizabethan Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; he convened the Tudor Symposium between 1998 and 2009. He has written books on John Lyly (1996) and Elizabethan Humanism (2001), and also essays and articles on a range of mid-Tudor topics. He is presently working on William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates.Cathy Shrank is Reader in Tudor Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2006) and essays and articles on various Tudor and Shakespearean topics, including language reform, civility, travel writing, cheap print, and mid-sixteenth-century sonnets. She is currently working on an edition of Shakespeare's poems and a monograph on non-dramatic dialogue in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

In their readiness to challenge assumptions, to re-think theoretical paradigms, and to hold possibilities, alternatives, and contradictions productively in play, these and many other essays in this volume do justice to the dense and complex literature of this period, modelling that literatures best features its ambition, polemic, and debate in its own pages and, in that respect, providing a model to us all.

• SECTION I: 1485-1529 ; SECTION II: 1530-1559 ; SECTION III: 1560-1579 ; SECTION IV: 1580-1603