The Forms of Renaissance Thought

1. Introduction: “The Form of Things Unknown”: Renaissance Studies in a New Millennium
Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sean Keilen

Part I. Reception, Renovation, Renaissance

2. Praxiteles’ Aphrodite and the Love of Art
Leonard Barkan

3. English Literature in its Golden Age
Sean Keilen

4. Translating for Queen Anne: John Florio’s Decameron
Michael Wyatt

5. The First Reader of Shake-speares Sonnets
Margreta Grazia

Part II. Desire and the Disorganized Body

6. The Play of Wanton Parts
Jonathan Goldberg

7. Shakespeare’s Narcissus, Sonnet’s Echo
Bradin Cormack

8. Coriolanus: The Rhythms and Remains of Excess
Peter Holland

9. The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge
Valerie Traub

Part III. Intimate Matters

10. Bearded Ladies in Shakespeare
A. R. Braunmuller

11. Shakespeare in Leather
Anston Bosman

12. Digging the Dust: Renaissance Archivology
William H. Sherman

13. Of Busks and Bodies
Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass

Keywords: History, History of Medieval Europe, Literature, general, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Medieval Literature