Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-222) and index.
The art of conversazioni: practices in Renaissance rhetoric / Arthur F. Kinney -- "Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy": Marlowe's republican authorship / Patrick Cheney -- "Much more the better for being a little bad", or gaining by relaxing: equity and paradox in Measure for measure / Peter G. Platt -- Allegory, irony, despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's tales and Spenser's Faerie queene, books I and III / Judith H. Anderson -- "Les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies": Shakespeare, French poetry, and alien tongues / William J. Kennedy -- Joining the conversation: David, Astrophil, and the Countess of Pembroke / Margaret P. Hannay -- The puzzling letters of Sister Elizabeth Sa[u]nder[s] / Betty S. Travitsky -- A civil conversation: letters and the edge of form / Roger Kuin -- "Made all of rusty yron, ranckling sore": the imprint of paternity in The faerie queene / Douglas A. Brooks