Introduction/ Roze Hentschell and Kathy Lavezzo -- Pt. 1. Community, colonialism, and nationhood -- Influence, appropriation, piracy: the place of Spain in English literary history/ Barbara Fuchs -- Idleness, humanist industry, and English colonial activity in Thomas More's "fruitfull, pleasant," "wittie" and "profitable" utopia/ Shannon Miller -- Amorous scholastics: the guilty pleasures of the Middle English Floris and Blauncheflour / Patricia Clare Ingham -- Pt. 2. Dramatic forms -- Delivery rooms: towards a reconsideration of the conclusion of The tempest/ Heather Dubrow -- One head is Better than two: The aphoristic afterlife of Renaissance tragedy/ Frances E. Dolan -- About suffering, and on Dying: Shakespeare's re-invention of a theater of eschatological identity in King Lear/ James Nohrnberg -- Pt. 3. Travel and geography -- Dante, Michelangelo, and what we talk about when we talk about poetry/ Leonard Barkan -- The pleasures of the land in Restoration England: the social politics of the compleat angler/ Andrew McRae -- Pt. 4. The literary career -- Rival laureates and multiple monuments: collaborative self-crowning in France/ Edwin M. Duval -- Du Bellay's "Source de la Meduse"/ Margaret Ferguson -- The Jacobean prodigals/ Michael O'Connell -- Religious affiliation in Elizabethan London: Richard Mulcaster, Edmund Spenser, and The family of love/ Andrew Hadfield -- Afterword: Helgersonland/ Patricia Fumerton -- Richard Helgerson: A Bibliography -- About the Contributors.