Introduction / Mary A. Papazian -- "The goodliest place in this world" : early Tudor reactions to papal Rome / Brett Foster -- "A comely presentation and the habit to admiration reverend" : ecclesiastical apparel on the early-modern English stage / Robert I. Lublin -- Plays of passion : pain, history, and theater in Edward II / Mathew Martin -- Poets, critics, and the redemption of poesy : Philip Sidney's Defense of poesy and metrical Psalms / Robert Kilgore -- Stealing or being stolen : a distinction between sacred and profane modes of transgressive desire in early-modern England / Sean McDowell -- John Donne's secular and sacred reactions to loss : from nothingness to God's tender jealousy / Mary A. Papazian -- Poetic re-creation in John Donne's "A litanie" / Hannibal Hamlin -- "Thy glorious household-stuffe" : doctrinal (re)inscription in George Herbert's church furnishings poems / David L. Orvis -- Hard hearts and scandal / Gregory Kneidel -- Silent signs : Fuller, David, and writing / Raymond-Jean Frontain -- "Intestine war" and "the smell of mortal change" : troping the digestive tract in Paradise lost / Kent R. Lehnhof -- Temple imagery and the sacred garden of Paradise lost / Chuck Keim -- Cringing before the Lord : Milton's Satan, Samuel Johnson, and the anxiety of worship / Andrew Barnaby.