Centering on cross-fertilization between the writings of Shakespeare and Donne, the essays in this volume examine relationships that are broadly cultural, theoretical, and imaginative. They emphasize the intersection of physical dimensions of experience with transcendent ones, whether moral, intellectual, or religious. They juxtapose lyric and sermons interactively with narrative and plays.
The essays are grouped under four headings: "Time, Love, Sex, and Death" (Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Jennifer Pacenza), "Moral, Public, and Spatial Imaginaries" (Mary Blackstone and Jeanne Shami, Douglas Trevor), "Names, Puns, and More" (Marshall Grossman, David Lee Miller, Julian Lamb), and "Realms of Privacy and Imagination" (Anita Gilman Sherman, Judith H. Anderson).
Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor’s Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English; Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (Fordham); and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (Fordham).
Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean- Jacques and Aurore Labbé Fournet / Board of Regents Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the author of Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (2008) and Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England (2012); she is also the coeditor of Grief and Gender: 700– 1700 (2003) and the editor of Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (2010).