Clifford Davidson is professor emeritus of English and Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Luis R. Gamez was a professor of English at Western Michigan University until 2002. John H. Stroupe is professor emeritus at Western Michigan University.

• Preface by Luis GámezTemperance and the End of Time: Emblematic Antony and Cleopatra by Christopher WorthamThe Masks of Cupid and Death by Judith Dundas"Sweet Power of Music": The Political Magic of "the Miraculous Harp" in Shakespeare's The Tempest by Peggy Munoz SimondsSpring and Winter in Love's Labor's Lost: An Iconographic Reconstruction by Frederick KieferJonson and the Emblematic Tradition: Ralegh, Brant, the Poems, The Alchemist, and Volpone by Robert C. EvansSpeaking Sweat: Emblems in the Plays of John Ford by Lisa HopkinsEmblematic Pictures for the Less Privileged in Shakespeare's England by Elizabeth TruaxQuarles as Dramatist by Elizabeth K. Hill