Table of Contents

Post-Marian Piety in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene: The Case of Belphoebe
Jesse Russell
Confessions and Obfuscations: Just War and Henry V
Nathan P. Gilmour
"Unfinished Epics: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Henriad, and the Mystic Plenum"
Robert Lanier Reid

Translating and Fragmenting Nature in The Divine Weeks
Kevin Chovanec

"The beautifullest Creature living": Cross-dressing Knights in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Tyler's Mirror of Princely Deeds
Rachel M. De Smith Roberts
"T'was I that Murdered thee": Heartbreak, Murder, and Justice in Early Modern Haunted Lovers' Ballads
Savannah Jensen

"Love at First Sight": The Narrator's Perspective in Marlowe's Hero and Leander
John N. Wall
Recentering the Forest in Early Modern England
Nicholas Ciavarra
"The house received all ornaments to grace it:" Cavendish, Lanyer, and the Cavalier Ideal of Bonum Vitae
Margaret C. Sanders
A Gentleman of Syracuse: Claudio Mario D'Arezzo and Sicilian Nationalism in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Anne Maltempi
Make Your Mark: Signatures of Queens Regnant in England and Scotland during the 16th Century
Heather R. Darsie

About the Author

WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University. JAMES PEARCE is Director of Graduate Studies in English at North Carolina Central University. WILLIAM GIVEN is a professor at the University of California at San Diego.