'From myself, my other self I turned' : an introduction / S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies -- Penelope and the politics of woman's place in the Renaissance / Georgianna Ziegler -- Private writing and public function : autobiographical texts by Renaissance Englishwomen / Helen Wilcox -- Queen Elizabeth in her speeches / Frances Teague -- The Queen's masque : Renaissance women and the seventeenth-century court masque / Marion Wynne-Davies -- 'The chief knot of all the
discourse' : the maternal subtext trying Sidney's Arcadia to Shakespeare's King Lear / Barbara J. Bono -- 'Household Kates' : chez Petruchio, Percy and Plantagenet / Laurie E. Maguire -- 'Half a dozen dangerous words' / S.P. Cerasano.
'Their testament at their apron-strings' : the representation of Puritan women in early-seventeenth-century England / Akiko Kusunoki -- 'Who may binde where God hath loosed?' : responses to sectarian women's writing in the second half of the seventeenth century / Hilary Hinds.