Index to The Self in Early Modern Literature by Terry Sherwood

Achilles, 91

Adam (in Paradise Lost), 288–90, 299–301

adventures, 53–54, 86–90

Aeneas (fictional character), 69

Aers, David, 147

Ajax, 273

Albany (fictional character), 41

allegory, 89, 92–94, 341n34

Alma (fictional character), 78–79

ambition. see patronage system

Amoret (fictional character), 59–60

Amoretti (Spenser), 97

"The Anagram" (Donne), 154

Analecton Anglobritannicon (Selden), 199

androgyny, 80, 86, 154–55, 180–83

Animadversions Upon the "Remonstrants" Defence, against Smectymnuus (Milton), 284

Anniversaries (Donne), 159–62

Antichrist, the Pope as, 31–32, 260, 365n5

anti-papalism, 31–32

Antiquity of Faerie (fictional book in The Fairie Queene), 79

anxiety, 351n48

Apelles, 245–46, 362n69

apocalyptic elements, 92–93

Apologica Ecclesia Anglicanae (Jewell), 324

Archimago (fictional character), 61–63

Areopagitica (Milton), 290

Argante (fictional character), 58–59

Aristotle, 13, 251–52, 333–34n30

Arruntius (fictional character), 232–34, 240

Artegall (fictional character), 57–58, 65–66, 68, 88–89, 92–93

Arthur (fictional character), 52–53, 56–60, 64, 67–68, 77–81, 88, 92–97

artistic rivalry, 247–48, 255–56

Asper (fictional character), 250, 252, 363n80

Augustine, 181

Augustus (fictional character), 242, 244, 246–47

Bacon, Ann Cook, 81–83, 323–25, 328–29

Bacon, Anthony, 322, 325

Bacon, Francis, 8, 225, 321–29

Bacon, Nicholas, 82, 321–22

Bald, R. C., 146, 156, 166–67

Barbour, Reid, 46–47

Barish, Jonas, 38, 240

Barker, Arthur, 290

"Batter my heart, three person'd God" (Donne), 159

Becon, Thomas, 16, 70–71, 83

Bedford, Lucy, 147–48, 157–58, 173, 222

Belphoebe (fictional character), 61

Belsey, Catherine, 2–4

Bible, 28–29, 33, 70. see also Christ; Jesus; John (Apostle); Paul; Peter (Apostle)

bifurcated self, 44–45

bishops, 284

Blair, David, 155

blame, 265–75, 280, 282–91, 297–301, 311–19, 365–66n7

Blatant Beast (fictional character). see Duessa (fictional character)

bodily resurrection, 144–45, 149–50

body politic, 142–43, 345–46n42

The Boke Named the Gouernour (Elyot), 71–77, 245, 362n69

Borris, Kenneth, 92–94, 341n34

Bradbrook, Muriel, 112

"Breake of Day" (Donne), 154

British national culture, 77–81

Britomart (fictional character), 52, 57–58, 64–65, 80–81, 85–86, 88–89

Briton Moniments (fictional book in The Fairie Queene), 79

Brooke, Christopher, 153, 167

Bryskett, Lodowick, 99–101

Buffone, Carlo (fictional character), 250

Calidore/Caledore (fictional character), 67, 88

calling. see vocation

"The Calme" (Donne), 153

Calvin, John and Calvinism, 10, 20, 26–27, 35, 335n43

Camden, William, 199, 207–8, 217–18, 237

careers. see vocation

Carey, John, 146–47, 166–67

Cartwright, Thomas, 26–27

Cast, David, 246

Cataline His Conspiracy (Jonson), 215

Cecil, Mildred Cook, 81–83

Cecil, William, 82, 84, 322, 325

centered self, 195–215, 355n3. see also decentered self

Chapman, George, 360–61n61

Charles I, 261

Cheney, Patrick, 97

chivalric adventures, 53–54, 86–90

Christ: Donne on, 162–63, 180–89; imagery in Shakespeare's Henriad, 130–31; imitation of, 11–12; and obedience, 32–34. see also Jesus

Christianity, 3, 5. see also civic humanism

Christian warfare, 272–73, 282–85, 290–91, 301

"The Church" (Herbert), 44–45

Cicero, 10–15, 333n28, 333–34n30, 359–60n51

civic humanism: and the common good, 8–10, 14, 50–51; and the English Renaissance, 3; Sidney and, 93–98; Spenser and, 93–98

civil authorities, obedience to, 24–27, 31–34

Clerimont (fictional character), 238

Coke, Edward, 8

common good: Cicero on, 13; and civic humanism, 8–10, 14, 50–51; and duty, 88; and early modern writers, 49; Elyot on, 72–77; Erasmus on, 11–12; and the monarchy, 141–43, 231; and poetry, 207, 239, 243–44, 248; and virtuous lore, 320; and vocation, 15–23, 24–37, 44, 50–51

common law, 114–19

commonwealth group, 16

commonwealth of learning, 198–99

"Communitie" (Donne), 154

"Confined Love" (Donne), 154

continuities and the self, 7

Cook sisters, 81–83, 323–25

Cordatus (fictional character), 248–52

Cordelia (fictional character), 38–42

Cordus (fictional character), 232

"La Corona" (Donne), 161

The Country Parson (Herbert), 44

Crispinus (fictional character), 242, 244

Cromwell, Oliver, 271–73, 282

Crowley, Robert, 16, 18–20

A Cry to Heaven of the King's Blood against the English Parricides (Du Moulin/More), 262, 268–69, 278

Dalilia (in Samson Agonistes), 312–15

dancing, benefits of, 75–77

D'Aubigny, Lord. see Stuart, Esmé

Dauphine (fictional character), 23, 235–37

Davies, John, 253

Daw, Jack (fictional character), 235–37

Dawson, Anthony, 46

Death's Duell (Donne), 149

De Beneficiis (Seneca), 211

decentered self, 1–8. see also centered self

A Defence of Himself Against Alexander More (Milton), 261–63, 281–82

Defence of Poesy/Poetry (Sidney), 68–69, 90–92

A Defence of the King (Salmasius), 261

Dekker, Thomas, 242, 248

Demetrius (fictional character), 242, 244

De Officiis (Cicero), 10–15

De Oratore (Cicero), 12–15

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Donne), 152, 159, 189, 352–53n62

Dewar, Mary, 17

Directions for Preachers (James I), 189

A Discourse of Civill Life (Bryskett), 99–101

A Discourse of the Commonweal of This Realm of England (Smith), 16–17

Discoveries (Jonson), 224–31

disguises: in The Fairie Queene, 61–62, 64–65, 80; in Shakespeare's Henriad, 120, 139–40

disobedience. see resistance theory

divorce, Milton on, 280

Docherty, Thomas, 146

Dollimore, Jonathan, 1, 3–4

Donne, Ann, 147–48, 151–52, 167–69, 348n17

Donne, Elizabeth (later Syminges, later Rainsford), 151, 164

Donne, John, 24; biographical information, 150–52; and androgyny, 154–55, 180–83; and bodily decay, 149; careerist ambitions of, 146–47, 166–67, 172, 179; and Catholicism, 150–51; on Christ, 162–63, 180–89; and the feminine muse, 159–60, 349–50n30; on friendship, 167–79; and gender issues, 154–55, 159–64; habit of retrospection, 179–81; on Job, 144–45, 152; on John the Baptist, 187–88; on learning, 348n17; letters of, 155–57, 167–79, 352n59; love poetry of, 152–56, 177; and misogyny, 153–55, 164–66; and nothingness, 172–74, 178–79; and Paul, 179–80, 184–86; on the person, 145; political career of, 147; political commentary, 189–90, 353–54n72; as priest, 179–91; search for intimacy, 164–67; sense of loss, 152, 164–65; on sin, 180–81, 352–53n62; on the soul, 158–59; spiritual search of, 147–48; and Trinitarian theology, 45–47; on virtue, 157–58; on vocation, 45–49, 145–46, 186–90; on women, 154–66, 182–83; works by: "The Anagram," 154; Anniversaries, 159–62; "Batter my heart, three person'd God," 159; "Breake of Day," 154; "The Calme," 153; "Communitie," 154; "Confined Love," 154; "La Corona," 161; Death's Duell, 149; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 152, 159, 189, 352–53n62; Essays in Divinity, 148; "The Exstasie," 170; "The Flea," 155; Holy Sonnets, 148, 180; "The Indifferent," 154; "Loves Alchymie," 164; "Loves Deitie," 177; "Loves Diet," 177; "Loves Exchange," 177–78; Pseudo Martyr, 24; Sermons, 145, 180; Songs and Sonnets, 164; "to his Mistris Going to Bed," 154; "To the Countesse of Bedford," 158; "A Valediction: of the Book," 168

Dorset, Earl of. see Sackville, Edward

drama: and inwardness, 6; monarch as actor, 122–24, 128, 141–42; and the person, 47, 62, 339n7

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 158, 160, 215

Drury, Elizabeth, 158–61, 163

Dryden, John, 193

Duessa (fictional character), 61–62, 88–89, 92–94

Du Moulin, Peter, 262, 268–69, 272–73, 279

duty, 86–88, 223–24. see also vocation

Eastward Ho (Jonson), 360–61n61

Edgar (fictional character), 39–42

education, moral, 68–77

Egerton, Thomas, 167, 209

Eikon Basilike (Charles I, purported author), 261

Eikonoklastes (Milton), 261

Elizabeth I: and androgyny, 80, 86; in Every Man..., 252–53; and The Fairie Queene, 85–88, 96; and Sidney, 9; and Spenser, 81

Ellrodt, Robert, 6–8, 48

Elton, G. R., 114

Elyot, Thomas, 71–77, 245, 362n69

Encheiridion (Epictetus), 10

Enchiridion militis christiani (Erasmus), 10–13, 333n24

England, Caroline, 46

"ensamples," 51–55, 68–71

envy, 241–58, 363–64n82

Envy (fictional character), 242–44, 246, 361n62

Epicoene (fictional character), 235

Epicoene (Jonson), 230, 234–40

Epictetus, 10

Epigrams (Jonson), 195–98, 209, 217

Epithalmium (Spenser), 97

Erasmus, 10–13, 333n24

Essays in Divinity (Donne), 148

Evans, Robert C., 208

Eve (in Paradise Lost), 288–90, 299–301

Every Man Out of His Humour (Jonson), 248–55

exemplary actions, 196–98, 212

exercise, physical, 75

"An Exhortacion concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates" (Tudor homily), 28

"The Exstasie" (Donne), 170

The Fairie Queene (Spenser), 4, 50–71, 77–81, 85–102, 341n29

false likenesses, 234. see also disguises

false witness, 229–30. see also slander

Falstaff, John (in Henry IV), 104, 112–13, 122–24, 126–27, 134–35

fame, 265–68, 286

the Father. see God

fear of God, 30–34

feminine muse, 159–60, 349–50n30

Ferrar, Nicholas, 45

Ferry, Anne, 48

A First Defence of the People of England (Milton), 259, 262

Fish, Stanley, 313, 316

fitness for vocation, 111, 122–36, 128–29

"The Flea" (Donne), 155

Flynn, Dennis, 150

The Forest (Jonson), 209–10, 217, 220–24, 256–57

Foucault, Michel, 2

Fowre Hymnes (Spenser), 97

Francis (in Henry IV), 104–5

friendship, 167–79, 197–208

garment imagery, 127–29, 133

Garrard, George, 169, 171, 175

gender issues: Donne and, 154–55, 159–64; in The Fairie Queene, 80; and Jonson, 235–36; persons defined by, 85

Gill, Roma, 248

Gloriana (fictional character), 52–54, 64, 80–81, 85–86, 96–97

Goad, Thomas, 326–28

God: love and fear of, 30–34; Milton as champion of, 262–65, 282–83, 285, 290, 296; and mutual acknowledgment, 288–89; obedience to, 24–37, 107–8; in Paradise Regained, 303, 305; in Samson Agonistes, 308–15; and Satan, 283; as Trinity, 45; and vocations, 9, 20–22

Goldberg, Jonathan, 292–94

Goodman, Christopher, 35–36

Goodyere, Henry, 169, 171–72, 174–78, 197–98

The Gouernaunce of Vertue (Becon), 70–71, 83

governors, virtues of, 71–77

Gray, Dave, 189

Greenblatt, Stephen, 3–5

Greene, Thomas M., 194–95

Grindal, Edward, 84–85, 340–41n26

Grossman, Marshall, 294–95

Guerret, Elizabeth, 262, 275–76, 278–79

Guibbory, Achsah, 154

Guillory, John, 310

Guyon (fictional character), 78–79, 88

Hadfield, Andrew, 99

Hal/Henry V (in Shakespeare's Henriad), 104–5, 112–20, 122–43, 145

Hamilton, A. C., 95–96

Hamlet (fictional character), 123, 140, 141

Harapha (fictional character), 313–15

Harland, Paul, 189–90

Harvey, Elizabeth, 160

Haskin, Dayton, 316

Hathaway, Baxter, 69

Hawkins, Sherman, 136

Hayward, Edward, 199, 204–6

heir apparent, 104–5, 113–14, 123–25

Helgerson, Richard, 209

Heninger, S. K., 91–92

Henry IV (Shakespeare), 104–5, 112–20, 122–43

Henry V (Shakespeare), 120, 136–41

Henry VIII, 31

Herbert, George, 25, 44–45; works by: "The Church," 44–45; The Country Parson, 44; "The Sacrifice," 25; The Temple, 45

Herbert, Magdalen, 170, 352n59

Herbert, William, 209–10, 215–16, 218–20, 237

heroes, 89–94, 136–38

hierarchical order: in Milton's works, 295–97; and nobles, 338n5; and obedience, 27–28, 31–43; and vocation, 111

Historie of Tithes (Selden), 199, 204

The History of the World (Raleigh), 359n51

Hoby, Elizabeth Cook, 82–83

Hoby, Thomas, 82, 84

Holy Sonnets (Donne), 148, 180

An Homelie against Disobedience and Wylfull Rebellion (Tudor homilie), 28

homilies, 27–30, 334n32

Hooker, Richard, 23, 27

Horace (fictional character), 242–44

Hotspur (in Henry IV), 124, 127–28, 130

Howard, Thomas, 209

humanism, 3, 8–10, 207–8

human soul, 158–59

idleness, 21

imitation, 228–29

imitation of Christ, 11–12

"The Indifferent" (Donne), 154

individualism, 109–10

intention: in The Fairie Queene, 51–67; and gender issues in The Fairie Queene, 80; and heroes, 89–90

interaction between the sexes, 75

intimacy, search for, 164–67

inwardness, 2–3, 5–7, 43

Ireland, 99, 343n45

The Isle of Dogs (Nashe), 360–61n61

James I, 189

Jesus, 24–25. see also Christ

Jesus (in Paradise Regained), 301–7, 312–15, 317–18

Job, 144–45, 152, 305

Jocelin, Elizabeth, 326–27

John (Apostle), 92–93

John the Baptist, 187–88

Jones, Inigo, 227

Jonson, Ben: biographical information, 207; and artistic rivalry, 247–48, 255–56; on Donne, 158, 159–60; on duty, 223–24; on envy, 241–58, 363–64n82; and exemplary actions, 196–98, 212; and friendship, 197–208; and gender issues, 235–36; and Hayward, 199, 204–6; and Herbert (William), 209–10, 215–16, 218–20, 237; and humanism, 207–8; and imitation, 228–29; and justice, 236–39; on language, 225–26; and Milton, 261; on nature, 227; on nobles, 210–13, 221; and the patronage system, 208–14, 356–57n32; political troubles of, 360–61n61; on reciprocal actions, 211–13; and Sackville, 211–13, 216; and Selden, 199–201, 204–6, 216, 237; and self-knowledge, 255–57; on the senses, 226–27; and Shakespeare, 192–94, 241; on true self, 195–215, 355n3; on truth, 214–41, 359n51; on tyranny, 230–32; and virtue, 207; and vocation, 49; and the War of the Theatres, 242, 248; on women, 221; works by: Cataline His Conspiracy, 215; Discoveries, 224–31; Eastward Ho, 360–61n61; Epicoene, 230, 234–40; Epigrams, 195–98, 209, 217; Every Man Out of His Humour, 248–55; The Forest, 209–10, 217, 220–24, 256–57; Poetaster, 242–44, 246–48; Sejanus, 230–34; Timber of Discoveries, 216; "To Penshurst," 241

Jove (in Lycidas), 266–67

judgment. see justice

justice: in Jonson's plays, 236–39; and Milton, 266–68, 275–78; and monarchy, 113–19; and Parliament, 369–70n27; in Shakespeare's Henriad, 112–19, 133; in Tudor England, 345n39; and vocation, 112

Katherine, Lady Aubigny, 222–23

Katherine (wife of Henry V), 142–43

Kent (fictional character), 37–42

Kerby, Anthony, 295

Kerrigan, William, 182

King, Edward, 265, 318

King, John, 83

King Lear (Shakespeare), 1, 37–43, 124, 140

kingship. see monarchy

Kocher, Paul, 322

Kress, Gunter, 147

Kronenfeld, Judy, 3

La Foole (fictional character), 235–37

Lamb, Mary Ellen, 82

language, 225–26

law, 114–19. see also justice

law of love, 31–33

Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 27

Lear (fictional character), 37–43, 124, 140

learning: commonwealth of, 198–99; Donne on, 348n17; and friendship, 197–208; Jonson on, 225–28; and Reformed Protestantism, 70

Lee, John, 3

Lepidus (fictional character), 233–34, 240

Lewalski, Barbara, 159, 163, 307

Lieb, Michael, 279, 308–9, 366–67n13

Lipsius, Justus, 216, 240

Little, David, 26

Loewenstein, David, 308

loneliness, fear of, 287–88

lore, virtuous, 320

love: God's, 30–34; law of, 31–33; marital, 52, 83–86; virtuous, 72–74, 77–80, 101–2

"Loves Alchymie" (Donne), 164

"Loves Deitie" (Donne), 177

"Loves Diet" (Donne), 177

"Loves Exchange" (Donne), 177–78

Lucian, 245–48

Lucy, Countess of Bedford. see Bedford, Lucy

Luther, Martin, 10, 20, 106–8, 333–34n4

Lycidas (fictional character), 265–68

Lycidas (Milton), 265–68, 286–87

Macilente (fictional character), 248–55

Mack, Maynard, 137

MacLaren, A. N., 16, 72

Magnusson, Lynne, 324, 329

Malcolmson, Cristina, 44

Manoa (fictional character), 313–16

Marco (fictional character), 233

marital love, 52, 83–86

Marotti, Arthur, 152–55, 166–68

marriage, royal, 143

Marshall, William, 15–16

Marston, John, 242, 248, 360–61n61

Mary (Queen of England), 35

Mary (Virgin), 159–63, 303–4

Maus, Katharine, 2, 5–7, 43–45, 207

McCanles, Michael, 210–11, 213

McEachern, Claire, 142

Milgate, W., 157

Milton, John: on bishops, 284; and Christian warfare, 272–73, 282–85, 290–91; on Cromwell, 271–73, 282; on divorce, 280; and Du Moulin and More, 260, 262, 268–69, 272–73, 275–81, 279, 285, 297; and fame, 265–68, 286; as God's champion, 262–65, 282–83, 285, 290, 296; and hierarchical order, 295–97; and Jonson, 261; and justice, 266–68, 275–78; left and right hands of, 293, 365n3; and loneliness, 287–89; and narrativization of experience, 294–301, 303; and physical self, 278–79; Psalms (translations of), 262–63; and reason, 271–72; on Salmasius, 261, 268–69, 274, 365–66n7; and Samson, 310, 317; self-defensiveness and blame, 259–75, 280, 282–91, 297–301, 311–19, 365–66n7; and self-esteem, 279–91; sexuality of, 280, 368–69n20; and textural revisions, 292–94, 366–67n13; and virtue, 270; and vocation, 49, 268; and vocational narrative, 291–94; works by: Animadversions Upon the "Remonstrants" Defence, against Smectymnuus, 284; Apology, 286; Areopagitica, 290; A Defence of Himself Against Alexander More, 261–62, 281–82; Eikonoklastes, 261; A First Defence of the People of England, 259, 262; Lycidas, 265–68, 286–87; Paradise Lost, 25–26, 288–90, 294–301, 312; Paradise Regained, 25–26, 301–7, 312–15; Reason of Church Government, 281, 287, 293; Samson Agonistes, 301, 306–19; A Second Defence of the People of England, 260–62, 268–71, 278–80, 293; The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 261, 283

the mind. see reason

misogyny, 153–55, 164–66

monarchy: and the common good, 141–43, 231; dual role of, 119–21, 123–27; fitness for, 122–36, 128–29; and justice, 113–19, 133; meaning of kingship, 306; and obedience, 27–28, 37–43; poet in service to, 95–96; public and private selves, 141–42; ruler as actor, 122–24, 128, 141–42; and succession, 125–30, 133–34, 142; as vocation, 113–21, 127, 138, 142–43. see also governors

Montrose, Louis, 141, 175

More, Alexander, 260, 262, 268–69, 272–73, 275–81, 285, 297

Morose (fictional character), 235

The Mother's Legacy to her Vnborn Childe (Jocelin), 326

Nardo, Anna, 164

narrative interpretation, 295

narrativization of experience, 294–301, 303

Nashe, Thomas, 360–61n61

national culture, British, 77–81

natural state, 78–79

nature, 13, 227

Neptune (in Lycidas), 267

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 13

nobles, 51–52, 210–13, 221, 338n5

Norbrook, David, 147–48

nothingness, 172–74, 178–79

Oath of Allegiance, 24

obedience, 24–43, 107–8. see also resistance theory

The Obedience of a Christian Man (Tyndale), 25, 30–33

O'Bedlam, Tom (fictional character), 39–42

Orpheus (fictional character), 265–66

Ovid (in Poetaster), 242–43, 247, 361n62

painters and paintings, 245–46, 358n47

pamphlet warfare, 260, 265, 269, 286

Paradise Lost (Milton), 25–26, 288–90, 294–307, 312

Paradise Regained (Milton), 25–26, 301–7, 312–15

Parliament, 118–19, 345n39, 369–70n27

Parr, Katharine/Catherine, 10, 83

Partridge, Edward, 236–37

patronage system, 208–14, 356–57n32. see also Donne, John, careerist ambitions

Patterson, Annabel, 147–48

Paul, 28–29, 33, 105–7, 179–80, 184–86

Peltonen, Markku, 323

Pembroke Hall, 340n25

Perkins, William, 9, 16, 21–23, 44, 106, 108–12, 138

person: defined by gender issues, 85; definition of, 4–5, 43–48; Donne on, 145; in drama, 47, 62, 339n7; in The Fairie Queene, 51–67; public and private, 123–27; in Shakespeare's Henriad, 123; Spenser and, 77–81

Peter (Apostle), 28, 33

Peter (fictional character in Lycidas), 267

Peterson, Richard, 195

Phoebus (fictional character), 265–68, 286–87

physical exercise, 75

Plutarch, 238, 251

Poetaster (Jonson), 242–44, 246–48

poetry and poets: and the common good, 207, 239, 243–44, 248; Donne's love poetry, 152–56; and the self, 48; in service to monarchy, 95–96; and truth, 247; and virtue, 68–69, 90–92; and vocation, 94–95

Poins, Ned (in Henry IV), 104–5

Ponet, John, 35–36

Pontia. see Guerret, Elizabeth

Pope, Alexander, 193, 258

the Pope as Antichrist, 31–32, 260, 365n5

professions. see vocation

prophetic vision, 92–94

Protestantism. see Reformed Protestantism

Psalms, 262–63

Pseudo Martyr (Donne), 24

The Public Faith of Alexander More (More), 262, 276

public service, 12, 14, 39, 322

"publike weale." see common good

Puttenham, George, 372–73n8

Rabkin, Norman, 136

Radigund (fictional character), 60–61

Radzinowicz, Mary Ann, 316

Raleigh, Walter, 50–55, 87, 359n51

Rambus, Richard, 98–99

Ratcliffe, Margaret, 218, 224

reason, 11, 66–67, 271–72

Reason of Church Government (Milton), 281, 287, 293

rebellion against monarch, 125–30

reciprocal actions, 211–13

reciprocal duties. see hierarchical order

Redcrosse (fictional character), 57, 61–63, 77–79, 86–89, 92–94

Reformation, 9–10

Reformed Protestantism: and the Cook sisters, 81–83, 323–25; and learning, 70; and public service, 322; Spenser and, 84; and vocation, 3, 8–10, 15–16, 50–51, 105–12; women and, 83–85, 324–29

regicide, 25, 126, 261

religion: and the English Renaissance, 2–3, 43; of friendship, 169–71

Renaissance: and civic humanism, 3; views on envy, 251–52, 363–64n82; views on slander, 245–46, 286

Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Greenblatt), 4

repentance, 162–63

resistance theory, 35–38

resurrection, bodily, 144–45, 149–50

Revelation (John), 92–93

Richard II, 126

Ricoeur, Paul, 294

Riggs, David, 208, 256

Riggs, William, 296

rivalry, artistic, 247–48, 255–56

Roe, Thomas, 195–97, 218

role-playing, 122–24, 128, 141

Rushdy, Ashraf, 317

Sabine, Maureen, 159–60

Sabinus (fictional character), 231–33

Sackville, Edward, 209, 211–13, 216

"The Sacrifice" (Herbert), 25

Salmasius, Claudius, 261, 268–69, 274, 365–66n7

Samson Agonistes (Milton), 301, 306–19

Samson (in Samson Agonistes), 306–19, 317

Satan, 283

Satan (in Paradise Lost), 296–307

Satyrene (fictional character), 63

Savile, Henry, 219

"Scandal" (Lucian), 245

A Second Defence of the People of England (Milton), 260–62, 268–71, 278–80, 293

Sejanus (Jonson), 230–34

Selden, John, 199–201, 204–6, 216, 237

self: bifurcated, 44–45; centered, 195–215, 355n3; and continuities, 7; decentered, 1–8; definition of, 3–5, 43, 48–49; in The Fairie Queene, 4; inner and outer, 43–46; integrated body and soul, 149–50; Jonson on true self, 195–215, 355n3; and narrative interpretation, 295; physical, 278–79; and poetry, 48; public and private, 123–27, 141–42; in Shakespeare's Henriad, 138–45; and vocation, 43–47; women's role in forming, 328

self-defensiveness and Milton, 259–75, 280, 282–91, 297–301, 311–19, 365–66n7

self-esteem, 279–91

self-knowledge, 255–57

Seneca, 211, 213

senses, 226–27

Sermons (Donne), 145, 180

Seymour, Anne, 83–84

Seymour, Edward, 83

Shakespeare, William: Christ imagery in Henriad, 130–31; and Jonson, 192–94, 241; and vocation, 37–43, 49, 103–13; works by: Henry IV and Henry V, 103–5, 112–43; King Lear, 1, 37–43

Shami, Jeanne, 189–90

Shawcross, John, 313, 366n13

The Shepheardes Calender (Spenser), 84–85, 95–98

"A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power" (Ponet), 35–36

Shuger, Debora, 2, 43–45

Sidney, Philip: and allegory, 341n34; and civic humanism, 93–98; compared with Spenser, 91–92, 97–98; and Elizabeth I, 9; and vocation, 8–10, 93–98, 342n40; works by: A Defence of Poesy/Poetry, 68–69, 90–92

Sidney, William, 223–24

Silus (fictional character), 231–33

sin, 180–81, 352–53n62

Sinfield, Alan, 2, 5, 10

Skinner, Quentin, 16, 36

slander, 245–46, 286. see also false witness

Smectymnuans, 260, 284

Smith, Thomas, 16–17

social responsibility. see common good

the Son. see Jesus

Songs and Sonnets (Donne), 164

Sordido (fictional character), 251

soul, human, 158–59

Spenser, Edmund: and civic humanism, 93–98; as colonial secretary, 99; compared with Sidney, 91–92, 97–98; and Elizabeth I, 81, 85–88, 96; and female readers, 52, 81–86; in Ireland, 343n45; letter to Raleigh, 50–55, 87; and the person, 77–81; and Reformed Protestantism, 84; roots in British national culture, 77–81; Virgil's influence on, 95–98; and vocation, 49–51, 93–98; works by: Amoretti, 97; Epithalmium, 97; The Fairie Queene, 4, 50–71, 77–81, 85–102, 341n29; Fowre Hymnes, 97; The Shepheardes Calender, 84–85, 95–98; A View of the Present State of Ireland, 99

Squire of Dames (fictional character), 58

St. George, 77

Strier, Richard, 39

Stuart, Esmé, 199, 209

subjection, 32–34

subjectivity, 2–8

The Subject of Tragedy (Belsey), 2

succession, 125–30, 133–34, 142

surrogacy, 131–32

Syminges, John, 150–51

Tacitus, 219

Tasso, Torquato, 69

Taylor, Charles, 295

The Temple (Herbert), 45

temptation, 305–7, 313–14

Tennenhouse, Leonard, 136

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (Milton), 261, 283

terminology, 3–5

textural revisions, 292–94, 366–67n13

theater. see drama

Tiberius (fictional character), 231–33

Timber of Discoveries (Jonson), 216

Timon (fictional character), 68

Titles of Honor (Selden), 199–201, 204–6, 216

Todd, Margot, 21, 324

"to his Mistris Going to Bed" (Donne), 154

"To my well'accomplish'd friend Mr. Ben Johnson" (Davies), 253

"To Penshurst" (Jonson), 241

"To the Countesse of Bedford" (Donne), 158

A Treatise of the Vocations (Perkins), 16, 108–12

Trinitarian theology, 45–47

true self, 195–215, 355n3

Truewit (fictional character), 236–40

truth: and envy, 241–58; Jonson on, 214–41, 359n51; and poetry, 247; and virtue, 216–28

Tudor monarchy, 27–28, 31

Tyndale, William, 25, 30–33

tyranny, 230–32, 284

Ulysses, 91, 273

Una (fictional character), 63, 67–68, 84–85, 89–90, 92

"A Valediction: of the Book" (Donne), 168

Vickers, Brian, 321

A View of the Present State of Ireland (Spenser), 99

Virgil, 95–98

Virgil (in Poetaster), 244, 246

virginity, 159–63

Virgin Mary, 159–63

Virgin Mary (in Paradise Regained), 303–4

virtue: Cicero, 13–14; Donne on, 157–58; "ensamples" of, 68–71; Erasumus on, 12; in The Fairie Queene, 51–55, 86–96; and governors, 71–77; and Jonson, 207; and Milton, 270; poetry and, 68–69, 90–92; private versus public, 87–88; teaching by example, 68–77; and truth, 216–28

virtuous lore, 320

virtuous love, 72–74, 77–80, 101–2

vision, 89–94, 341n29

vocation: ambivalence about, 122–43; and calling, 21–22; Calvin on, 335n43; and chivalric romance, 50, 56; and the common good, 15–37, 44, 50–51; definition of, 342–43n43; Donne on, 45–49, 145–46, 186–90; fitness for, 111, 122–36, 128–29; God and, 9, 20–22; and hierarchical order, 111; and individualism, 109–10; Jonson on, 49; and justice, 112; in King Lear, 37–43; kingship as, 113–21; Luther on, 106–8, 333–34n4; Milton and, 268; and monarchy, 113–21, 127, 138, 142–43; and obedience, 24–37; Paul on, 105–7; Perkins on, 108–12; and poets, 94–95; and Protestantism, 3, 8–10, 15–16, 50–51, 105–12; and the self, 43–47; in Shakespeare's Henriad, 103–13; Sidney and, 8–10, 93–98, 342n40; Spenser and, 49–51, 93–98; women's role, 324–29. see also heir apparent

vocational narrative, 291–94

The Voyce of the Laste Trumpet... (Crowley), 16

Waingrow, Marshall, 38

Walton, Isaac, 45, 150

Walwyn, William, 367–68n17

warfare of peace. see Christian warfare

War of the Theatres, 242, 248

Warwick, Earl of (in Shakespeare's Henriad), 128–30

Watson, Paul, 106–7

Webber, Joan, 181

Weston, Richard, 241–42

Whitgift, William, 26–29

Wittreich, Joseph, 93, 307–8, 317

the womb, 160

women: Donne on, 154–66, 182–83; Jonson on, 221; and Reformed Protestantism, 83–85, 324–29; role in forming self, 328; and vocation, 324–29

Woodward, Roland, 156–57

Worden, Blair, 92

work, 20–21. see also vocation

Wotton, Henry, 156, 169–70, 174–75

Young, Bishop John, 84