Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.

The books and lives of three Tudor women / Mary Erler -- "Unlock my lipps" : the Miserere mei Deus of Anne Vaughan Lok and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke / Margaret P. Hannay -- Historical difference/Sexual difference / Phyllis Rackin -- The taming-school : The taming of the shrew as lesson in Renaissance humanism / Margaret Downs-Gamble -- An intertextual study of Volumnia : from legend to character in Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Catherine La Courreye Blecki -- Domesticating the dark lady / Jean R. Brink -- Forming the commonwealth : including, excluding, and criminalizing women in Heywood's Edward IV and Shakespeare's Henry IV / Jean E. Howard -- Private and public : the boundaries of women's lives in early Stuart England / Retha M. Warnicke -- Resurrecting the author : Elizabeth Tanfield Cary / Donald W. Foster --

Dictionary English and the female tongue / Juliet Fleming -- Re-gendering individualism : Margaret Fell Fox and Quaker rhetoric / Judith Kegan Gardiner -- "Marrying that hated object" : the carnival of desire in Behn's The rover / Mark S. Lussier.