Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period.

Introduction - Andrew King and Matthew WoodcockUnknowe, unkow, Vncovthe, uncouth: From Chaucer and Gower to Spenser and Milton - Alexandra GillespieArmour that doesn't work: An Anti-meme in Medieval and Renaissance Romance - Robert Maslen'Of his ffader spak he no thing': Family Resemblance and Anxiety of Influence in Fifteenth-Century Prose Romance - Megan G. LeitchWriting Westwards: Medieval English Romances and their Early Modern Irish Audiences - Aisling ByrnePenitential Romance after the Reformation - James WadeThe English Laureate in Time: John Skelton's Garland of Laurel - Mary C. FlanneryThomas Churchyard and the Medieval Complaint Tradition - Matthew WoodcockPlacing Arcadia - Nandini DasFathers, Sons and Surrogates: Fatherly Advice in Hamlet - Jason Powell'To visit the sick court': Misogyny as Disease in Swetnam the Woman-Hater' - Joyce BoroThe Monument of Uncertainty: Sovereign and Literary Authority in Samuel Sheppard's The Faerie King - Andrew KingMopsa's Arcadia: Choice Flowers Gathered out of Sir Philip Sidney's Rare Garden into Eighteenth-Century Chapbooks - Helen VincentBibliographyIndexA Bibliography of Helen Cooper's Published Works