Introduction--D.Callaghan * Part I: THEORIES * Cleopatran Affinities: Hélène Cixous, Margaret Cavendish and the Writing of Dialogic Matter--J.Gil Harris * Confessing Mothers: The Maternal Penitent in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy--H.Hirschfeld * Feminist Criticism and the New Formalism: Early Modern Women and Literary Engagement--S.Roberts * Ophelia's Sisters--R. S. White * PART II: WOMEN * Sex and the Early Modern City: Staging the Bawdy Houses of London--J.Howard * Women, Gender, and the Politics of Location--K.Chedgzoy * 'The 'diffrence . . . in degree': Social Rank and Gendered Expression"--K.A.Coles * A New Fable of the Belly: Vulgar Curiosity and the Persian Lady's Loose Bodies--P.Allen Brown * Construing Gender: Mastering Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew--P.Parker * PART III: HISTORIES * Hermione's Ghost: Catholicism, the Feminine, and the Undead--F.E.Dolan * No Man's Elizabeth: Frances Yates and the History of History--D.Williams * Women's Informal Commerce and the All-Male Stage--N.Korda * Why did Widows Remarry? Remarriage, Male Authority, and Feminist Criticism--J.Panek * 'I desire to be helde in your memory': Reading Penelope Rich Through Her Letters--G.Ioppolo * Hormonal Conclusions--G.Kern Paster * Index