Helen Ostovich is Professor of English at McMaster University. She is editor of Ben Jonson's Every Man Outof His Humour and Ben Jonson: Four Comedies, and coeditor of Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon inEnglish Renaissance Studies.
Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Brock University. She currently holds a Chancellor's Research Chair. She is author of Barbarous Dissonance and Imagesof Voice in Milton's Epics, and coeditor of Imperialisms:Historical and Literary Investigations 1500-1900, Miltonand the Imperial Vision, and Books and Readers in EarlyModern England.

INTRODUCTION: REREADING WOMEN'S LITERARY HISTORY 1 Legal Documents/Women's Testimony 2 The Status of Women 3 Mothers' Legacies and Medical Manuals 4 Religion, Prophecy, and Persecution 5 Letters 6 Life-writing: Nonfiction and Fiction CHAPTER 7 Translations/Alterations 8 Poetry 9 Plays 10 Applied Arts and Music