1. Introduction -- I. Mediators -- 2. The Renaissance Translator as Go-Between -- 3. Inglese Italianato - Italiano Anglizzato: John Florio -- 4. Ash Wednesday in Westminster: Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England -- 5. De Witt, van Buchell, the Wooden O, and the Yellow M -- 6. John Dee as Cultural, Scientific, Apocalyptic Go-Between -- 7. John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary Go-Betweens on Early Modern Print Culture -- II. Mediations -- 8. Hybrids: Learning from a Gilded Silver Beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) -- 9. British Cultural History and Church History for the Continent: John Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) -- 10. Machiavellian Dissimulation and Allegory: The Writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney -- 11. Moses as Go-Between: John Spencer's Theory of Religious Translation -- III. Representations -- 12. Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between -- 13. Spirits, Ghosts, Demons in Shakespeare and Milton -- 14. 'A membrane has broken': Returning from the Dead in The Spanish Tragedy -- 15. 'The Words of Mercury': Shakespeare's Love Ambassadors -- 16. Incising Venice: the Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice -- 17. Iago the Essayist: Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare -- Index -- Notes on Contributors.