Table of Contents

Of circles, friendship and the imperatives of literary history, Judith Scherer Herz; ""Like a Spyed Spie"" - Donne's baiting of Marlowe, Thomas Hester; ""To all Vertuous Ladies in General"" - Aemelia Lanyer's community of strong women, Sharon Cadman Seelig; the invention of the literary circle of Sir Thomas Overbury, John Considine; ""This Art will Live"" - social and literary responses to Ben Jonson's ""The New Inn"", Robert C. Evans; Newcastle's ghosts - Robert Payne, Ben Jonson and ""The Cavendish Circle"", Timothy Raylor; reading poets reading poets - Herbert and Crashaw's literary ellipse, Paul A. Parrish; a space for academic recreation - Milton's proposal in ""The Reason of Church Government"", Anna K. Nardo; Thomas Stanley and ""A Register of Friends"", Stella P. Revard; community and social order in the Great Tew Circle, P.G. Stanwood; ""The Great Difference of Time"" - the Great Tew Circle and the emergence of the neoclassical mode, M.L. Donnelly; conversation, conversion, Messianic redemption - Magaret Fell, Menasseh ben Israel and the Jews, Achsah Guibbory.

About the Author

About the Editors

Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth are both William E. Stirton Professors in the Humanities at the University of Michigan- Dearborn. They have coedited numerous works, including The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination, The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry, and Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-Century English Literature.