Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology of Selected Historical, Cultural and Textual Events in 1611 -- Introduction: 'The omnipotency of the word' -- The Textual Culture of 1611 -- The Historical Moment -- One Literary Year -- 1: Jonson's Oberon and friends: masque and music in 1611 -- Bringing in the New Year -- The Originality of Jonson's Oberon -- Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly -- 'Ayry Musique' in 1611 -- 2: Aemilia Lanyer and the 'first fruits' of women's wit -- 'To All Vertuous Ladies' -- A Tale of 'Too Much Love' -- 'Turning Greene Tresses into Frostie Gray': Lanyer's Cooke-ham -- Arbella Stuart, 'Patterne of Misfortune' -- Women and Manuscript Culture -- 3: Coryats Crudities and the 'travelling Wonder' of the age -- 'Tending Both to Pleasure and Profit': Travel in 1611 -- 'The Odcombian Legge-Stretcher' -- 'Our Britaine-Ulysses': Satire in 1611 -- Strange Wonders in 1611 -- 4: Time, tyrants and the question of authority: The Winter's Tale and related drama -- The 'Lascivious Stage' in 1611 -- A King - or No King? James, Leontes and Other 'Tyrants' -- Alternatives to Tyranny: Female Authority in The Winter's Tale -- Topical Entertainment in 1611: Autolycus and Time -- 5: 'Expresse words': Lancelot Andrewes and the sermons and devotions of 1611 -- Preaching the Word in 1611 -- 'The Text, and the Time Together': Lancelot Andrewes's Easter Day Sermon -- A Learned and Fruitfull Sermon: Andrewes and Fellow-Preachers in 1611 -- 'Hearte Deepe Praises': Sermons as Devotional Writing -- 6: The Roaring Girl on and off stage -- Mary or Moll: Truth or Fiction? -- 'Brave Captain, Male and Female': Moll in The Roaring Girl -- 'She That Has Wit and Spirit': Wives and Widows -- 7: 'The new world of words': authorising translation in 1611.

'Verball Creatures': Books and Translators -- The King James Bible: 'Happy Is the Man That Delighteth in the Scripture' -- 'Yet More Worthy Yours': Homer, the Prince and the Attraction of English Poetry -- 1611: The Translators' Year -- 8: Donne's 'Anatomy' and the commemoration of women: 'her death hath taught us dearly' -- 'She, She Is Dead -- She's Dead': John Donne on Elizabeth Drury -- 'The Continual Remembrance of This Vertuous Gentlewoman' -- 'Warble Forth Sorrow': the Alchemy of Loss -- 9: Vengeance and virtue: The Tempest and the triumph of tragicomedy -- 'My So Potent Art': Aspects of Authority in The Tempest -- 'Something Rich and Strange': Wonder and Strangeness in The Tempest -- 'Calm Seas, Auspicious Gales' -- Conclusion: 'This scribling age' -- Appendix: A List of Printed Texts Published in 1611 -- Bibliography -- Index.