Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. 1. Introduction: Bucer's Round Church and Shakespeare's "Wooden O"–The Circulation of the Reformation Sermon and the Renaissance Play 1
6. Part I: Polemics and Irenics at Paul's Cross
7. 2. The Pulpit Performance and the Two-Edged Sword 31
8. 3. "Holy Cozenage" and the Renaissance Cult of the Ear 50
9. Part II: Comic Edification and Inclusion
10. 4. Satire and Social Structure 73
11. 5. "Strange Tempests": The Rhetoric of Judgment in Field and Shakespeare 95
12. Part III: Tragedy: Watershed and Confluence
13. 6. The Mist and the Wilderness: Protestant Paradox in Gifford and Webster 123
14. 7. Donne in on Shakespeare's Stage: The Theology and Theatrics of Renaissance Dying 141
15. Conclusion 159
16. Notes 161
17. Bibliography 187
18. Index 201