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2. The English Language of the Early Modern Period 3. Literacy and Education 4. Rhetoric 5. History 6. Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England 7. Early Tudor Humanism 8. Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation 9. Translation 10. Mythology 11. Scientific Writing 12. Publication: Print and Manuscript 13. Early Modern Handwriting 14. The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry 15. Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 16. Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction 17. Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice 18. ‘Law Makes the King’: Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule 19. Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty 20. Court and Coterie Culture 21. Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe 22. Bacon's ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 23. The Literature of the Metropolis 24. Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 25. ‘An Emblem of Themselves’: Early Renaissance Country House Poetry 26. Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell 27. English Reformations 28. Translations of the Bible 29. Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 Sermon 30. Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 31. Catholic Writings 32. Sectarian Writing 33. The English Broadside Print c.1550–c.1650 34. The Writing of Travel 35. England's Experiences of Islam 36. Reading the Body 37. Physiognomy 38. Dreams and Dreamers ... log in or subscribe to read full text