Dedication

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Religious ritual and literary form
8. 1 Shylock celebrates Easter 21
9. 2 Protestant faith and Catholic charity 39
10. 3 Singing in the counter 56
11. 4 Romancing the Eucharist 72
12. 5 Edmund Spenser’s The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration 90
13. Part II Negotiating confessional conflict
14. 6 Letters to a young prince 113
15. 7 Tragic mediation in The White Devil 126
16. 8 ‘A deed without a name’ 142
17. 9 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict 160
18. 10 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne’s ecumenicalism 182
19. 11 Foucault, confession, and Donne 196
20. Afterword 216
21. Index 239