Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Minority Catholic Culture -- 1. Marian Verse as Po liti cally Oppositional Poetry in Elizabethan En gland -- 2. Religious Identity and the En glish Landscape: William Blundell and the Harkirk Coins -- 3. Remembering Lot's Wife: The Structure of Testimony in the Painted Life of Mary Ward -- Part II. Figuring the Jew -- 4. Early Mimics: Shylock, Machiavelli, and the Commodification of Nationhood -- 5. Milton, Prophet of Israel -- Part III. Hebraism and the Bible -- 6. Per for mance and Parshanut: The Historie of Jacob and Esau -- 7. Exploiting King Saul in Early Modern En gland: Good Uses for a Bad King -- 8. Prophetic Voices: Joachim de Fiore, Moses Maimonides, Philip Sidney, Mary Herbert, and the Psalms -- 9. Biblical and Rabbinic Intertextuality in George Herbert's "The Collar" and "The Pearl" -- Part IV. Women and Religion -- 10. "This Pretious Passeover Feed Upon": Poetic Eucharist and Feminine Vision in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum -- 11. Reading Funeral Sermons for Early Modern En glish Women: Some Literary and Historiographical Challenges -- Part V. Religion and Secularization -- 12. Framing Religion: Marlovian Policy and the Pluralism of Art -- 13. Shakespeare's Secular Benediction: The Language of Tragic Community in King Lear -- Contributors -- Index -- Color Plates.