Table of Contents

Introduction Helen Hackett

Part I Linguistic Exchanges: Translation and Imitation

1 Translation as a Curerncy of Cultural Exchange in Early Modern England Brenda M. Hosington

2 Translation and Language Learning: The English Version of Petrarch's Triumph of Eternity Attributed to Elizabeth I Alessandra Petrina

3 A Triangular Relationship: Classical Latin Literature in Thomas Capion's Neo-Latin and English Short Poetry Gesine Manuwald

Part II International Dialogues Between Cultural Elites

4 A King and Two Queens: The holograph correspondence of Philip II with Mary I and Elizabeth I Rayne Allinson and Geoffrey Parker

5 Negotiating the Royal Image: Portrait Exchanges in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Diplomacy Tracey A. Sowerby

6 English 'Public' Politics and the French Example, 1620-1640 Noah Millstone

Part III Communities of Exchange, Agents of Exchange

7 The Impact of Sir Thomas Smith Andrew Hadfield

8 Writing the Travel Companion in Seventeenth-Century English Texts about the Ottoman Empire Eva Johanna Holmberg

9 Sor Juana's Los empenos de una casa [The Trials of a Noble House]: Theatrical Exchange between Europe and New Spain Eavan O'Brien

10 The English Convents in Exile and Their Neighbors: Extended Networks, Patrons and Benefactors Caroline Bowden

Epilogue Exchange: Time to Face the Strange? Alexander Samson

About the Author

Helen Hackett is Professor of English at University College London, UK. She is the author of A Short History of English Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths, Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance, and Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary.