Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literature: Studies in Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ...................................... vii Introduction ................................................ ix ONE Sacred and Secular in The Merchant of Venice .......................................................... 1 TWO Hamlet and the Stoic .................................. 39 THREE Spenser and the Pagan Gods ........................ 87 FOUR Volpone, Comedy or Mordant Satire? ........ 135 FIVE Donne and the Meditative Tradition .......... 171 Epilogue ........................................................ 213 Notes ............................................................ 219 Selected Bibliography .................................. 241 Index ............................................................ 249 ...