Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Authority, Text and the Jacobean Mind; C.Bloom - Open and Closed Books: a Semiotic Approach to the History of Jacobean Popular Romance; J.Simons - Nashe, Rhetoric and Satire; N.Rhodes - The Luck of the English; V.Pitt - The Borders and their Ballads; S.Knight - The Poetry of John Donne: Literature, History and Ideology; W.Zunder - Donnes' Masculine Persuasive Force; H.Carr - 'In Love with Curious Words': Signification and Sexuality in English Petrarchism; M.Evans - The White Devil and the Fair Woman with a Black Soul; S.Freedman - A King and no King: Monarchy and Royalty as Discourse in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; R.Giddings - Masques and Murderers: Dramatic Method and Ideology in Revenge Tragedy and the Court Masque; D.Grantley - All about Eve: Woman in Paradise Lost; J.Simons - Selected Bibliography; M.Shakeshaft - Notes - Index
