Preface, by J. A. Reynolds -- Introduction, by N. G. Lawrence -- Renaissance anti-feminism and the classical tradition, by J. E. Wellington -- Artifice and artistry in Richard II and Othello, by W. L. Halstead -- William Harrison: a sixteenth-century mind, by J. I. McCollum, Jr -- Two faces of style in Renaissance prose fiction, by B. E. Teets -- Variations on a theme in the Western tradition, by J. A. Reynolds -- A study of taffeta phrases and honest kershey [sic] noes, by N. G. Lwarence.