Traditions and innovations : essays on British literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by David G. Allen and Robert A. White.

Contents : Causality and miracle : philosophical perspectives in the Knight's tale and the Man of law's tale / R.E. Kaske -- Separations and St. Paul's thorn in Chaucer's Troilus / David W. Hiscoe -- Fragment VII of Chaucer's Canterbury tales and the "mental climate of the fourteenth century" / Emerson Brown, Jr. -- The flyting contract and adversarial patterning in the alliterative Morte Arthure / Ward Parks -- Caxton's copy-text for Le morte Darthur : tracing the provenance / Richard R. Griffith -- Text and Textura : Spenser's Arachnean art / Pamela Royston Macfie -- Living with Elizabethans; or, there goes the neighborhood / George Garrett -- Patriarchal fatherhood in Ben Jonson's Epigram 45 / H.W. Matalene. "Inviting a friend to svpper" : Ben Jonson, friendship, and the poetics of patronage / Robert C. Evans -- Richard II, 5.3 : traditions and subtext / Dorothea Kehler -- Nightingales that roar : the language of A midsummer night's dream / Jay L. Halio -- Thomas Heywood's A woman killed with kindness as domestic morality / Michael Wentworth -- The tragedy of Annabella in 'Tis pity she's a whore / Nathaniel Strout -- Woman on the Jacobean stage : type and antitype / Charlotte Spivack -- The temptation of Eve / Debora K. Shuger -- Narcissus in Paradise lost and Upon Appleton House : disenchanting the Renaissance lyric / Kathleen Kelly -- Herbert's reciprocal writing : poetry as sacred pun / Harriet Kramer Linkin -- Resonance in the poetry of Robert Herrick / Robert W. Halli, Jr. Victim criminalized : iconographic traditions and Peacham's Ganymede / Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange -- King George of England meets Samuel Johnson the great cham of literature : the end of courtly letters and the beginning of modern literature / Alvin B. Kernan.