Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgments ix
6. Abbreviations x
7. Introduction 1
8. Unknowe, unkow, Vncovthe, uncouth: From Chaucer and Gower to Spenser and Milton* 15
9. Armour that doesn’t work: An Anti-meme in Medieval and Renaissance Romance 35
10. ‘Of his ffader spak he no thing’ Family Resemblance and Anxiety of Influence in Fifteenth-Century Prose Romance 55
11. Writing Westwards: Medieval English Romances and their Early Modern Irish Audiences 73
12. Penitential Romance after the Reformation 91
13. The English Laureate in Time John Skelton’s Garland of Laurel 107
14. Thomas Churchyard and the Medieval Complaint Tradition 123
15. Placing Arcadia 143
16. Fathers, Sons and Surrogates Fatherly Advice in Hamlet 163
17. ‘To visit the sick court’ Misogyny as Disease in Swetnam the Woman-Hater 187
18. The Monument of Uncertainty: Sovereign and Literary Authority in Samuel Sheppard’s The Faerie King 209
19. Mopsa’s Arcadia: Choice Flowers Gathered out of Sir Philip Sidney’s Rare Garden into Eighteenth-Century Chapbooks 235
20. Bibliography 251
21. Index 273
22. A Bibliography of Helen Cooper’s Published Works 279
23. Tabula Gratulatoria 285