Description: Acknowledgements Introduction: Historical Renaissance Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier Part I: The Mid-Tudor Scene A Tudor Queen Finds Voice: Katherine Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner Janel Muller Ideas of Resistance before Elizabeth Donald R. Kelly Part 2: Shakespeare, Politics, and History Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History Marjorie Garber Faithful Servants: Shakespeare's Praise of Disobedience Richard Strier Cymbeline and the Unease of Topicality Leah S. Marcus Part 3: Poets, Courtiers, and the Monarchy Sidney and his Queen Maureen Quilligan "The Sun in Water": Donne's Somerset Epithalamium and the Poetics of Patronage Heather Dubrow Law and Ideology: The Civil Law and Theories of Absolutism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England Brian P. Levack "Subject to Ev'ry Mounters Bended Knee": Herbert and Authority Michael C. Schoenfeldt Part 4: Humanism and Its Discontents Barbarous Tongues: The Ideology of Poetic Form in Renaissance England Richard Helgerson Sir Philip Sidney and the Uses of History Arthur F. Kinney Spenser, Bacon, and the Myth of Power Clark Hulse From Matron to Monster: Tudor-Stuart London and the Languages of Urban Description Lawrence Manley Notes on Contributors

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