"With one exception the essays gathered here were first presented in October 1990 at the Seventeenth Alabama Symposium in English and American Literature"--P. vii. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Agons of the manor / Christopher Kendrick -- State, Church, and the disestablishment of magic / Richard Lachmann -- Legal proofs and corrected readings / Joseph F. Loewenstein -- Bestial buggery in A midsummer night's dream / Bruce Thomas Boehrer -- News from the New World, miscegenous romance in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and The widow Ranter/ Margaret Ferguson -- Dead man's treasure, the cult of Thomas More / Clark Hulse -- Treasures of culture, Titus Andronicus and death by hanging / Francis Barker -- The picture of nobody, white cannibalism in The tempest / Richard Halpern -- Allegory, materialism, violence / Gordon Teskey.
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