Jeffrey Kahan is Professor, Department of English, University of La Verne. M. Thomas Hester is Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University.

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• Preface: Acknowledgments; Talking Renaissance Texts: A Foreword; Introduction: The Work of Stanley Stewart; 1. Reading 'more wit' in Donne and Catullus, M. Thomas Hester; 2. Donne's Catholic Conscience and the Wit of Religious Anxiety, R. V. Young; 3. George Herbert's Early Readers, Arthur F. Kinney; 4. The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the 'Truest' Version of Ben Jonson's 'A Satyricall Shrubb', Grace Ioppolo; 5. 'Shakespear wanted Arte': Questioning the Historical Value of Ben Jonson's Conversations with Drummond, Jeffrey Kahan; 6. 'The Primrose Way to the Everlasting Bonfire': The Choice of Hercules in Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton, John Mulryan; 7. Full Sight, Fancied Sight, and Touch: Milton's Sonnet 23 and Molyneux's Question, Sara van den Berg; 8. Catholicism in Print: Tudor Books in the Douay College Museum at St. Edmund's, Paul J. Voss; 9. Proverbs, Philosophy, and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and King Lear, Richard Harp; 10. Othello's Tragedy and Uncommon Law, Cyndia Susan Clegg; 11. Eloquence Repaired: Thomas Wilson's New Myth of the Origin and Nature of Oratory, Scott F. Crider; 12. Meter and Meaning in Shakespeare: A Modest Suggestion, Tom Clayton; 13. Romeo and Juliet and the Cure of Souls, John Channing Briggs; 14. 'Despair Behind, and Death Before'; Comparing and Contrasting the Meditative Sonnets of Anne Vaughn Locke and John Donne, Robert C. Evans; Bibliography of Stanley Stewart; Contributors; Index.