S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.Heather Anne Hirschfeld is Kenneth Curry Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.Edward Gieskes is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

• ForewordS. P. CerasanoArticles“Stigma and Satire in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: Thersites’s Deformity and Ajax’s Monstrosity”Jeffrey R. Wilson“The Masque of Flowers (1614) and LettersDavid M. Bergeron“Self-Deception in Soliloquies in Shakespeare’s Plays: An Empirical Investigation”James Hirsh“George North’s Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland: A Courtier’s Warning to the Queen”June Schlueter“History as Warning: Middleton, Massinger, and the Censors”Warren Chernaik“The Transgressive Will in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe and Elizabeth Cary”Douglas Clark“Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus and the Wisdom Tradition”Eric Pudney“Fulgens and Lucres and the Middle English Debate Tradition”Noah Gene Peterson“King Lear’s Edgar and Early Modern Renderings of the Apostle Peter” Derek Witten“‘Unkinged’ King Richard’s Sense of Self in Richard II”Michael Menase“‘Epitaphs in Glitt’ring Golden Characters’: Watery Empathy and The Purity of ‘The Real’ in Pericles, Prince of Tyre”Jessica Tooker“Post-Restoration Adaptations: Is Double FalsehoodCardenio? Versification Analysis” Marina Tarlinskaja