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Centering on cross-fertilization between the writings of Shakespeare and Donne, the essays in this volume examine relationships that are broadly cultural, theoretical, and imaginative. They emphasize the intersection of physical dimensions of experience with transcendent ones, whether moral, intellectual, or religious. They juxtapose lyric and sermons interactively with narrative and plays.

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Because of the compartmentalization of literary criticism, we have been largely blind to the many points of intellectual and artistic contact between the two greatest English love poets of the later sixteenth- and early seventeenth centuries, Shakespeare and Donne. This remarkable collection of highly original essays changes that. It also changes the field of English Renaissance studies. -Gordon Teskey, Harvard University Essays on links between the two early modern writers; topics include Donne, Shakespeare, and the interrogative conscience. -The Chronicle Review The approaches of Anderson and Lamb, one grounded in Aristotelian faculty psychology and the other in a philosophy of language, converge in especially interesting ways that account for the impulse to do what, say, Ben Johnson might have done but probably never did: bring Shakespeare and Donne together. -Renissance Quarterly, Margaret Maurer, Colgate University This volume complicates both authors in productive ways and should help dismantle the artificial wall that several centuries of criticism have set up between them. --Studies in English Literature By performing theorized, rigorously researched, intertextual study so consistently, chapter by chapter, with coherence across its parts (if not always overtly within them), Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary is a model for how one might attempt such dialogues between other writers how to place their works side by side in ways that illuminate the authors; the period(s) in which they are writing; the various genres, modes, and literary devices they employ; and the theoretical lenses that one might use to derive meaning from such a pairing. --Shakespeare Quarterly

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Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean-Jacques and Aurore Labb� Fournet Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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