Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher -- Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet / Heather Dubrow -- The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher -- Caterpillage: Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Figuring belief: George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp -- Entertaining Friends: Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick -- Skin Merchants: Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates