List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Transformative Materiality and Renaissance Dynamics
Jennifer Linhart Wood
Part I: Objects Within / Without the Body
1. “Farre Fetched and Deare Bought”: The Global Cosmetic Exchange Between Elizabeth I, Melike Safiye Sultan, and the Kira Esperanza Malchi
Josie Schoel
2. Comb Poems
Erika Mary Boeckeler
3. Variable Vestments and Clothing Conversions: Piecing Out the Past in Tudor Exeter
Naomi Howell
Part II: Networking Objects
4. Bird- People, Utopias, Arte Plumaria: The Influence of Native American Feathers on Renaissance Literature and Culture
Edward McLean Test
5. Needlework Patterns on the Move: Traveling Toward (Re)incarnation
Anna Riehl Bertolet
6. “Whose Least Part Crackt, the Whole Does Fly”: The Explosive Case of Prince Rupert’s Drops
Abbie Weinberg
Part III: Staging Properties
7. Traveling Music and Theatrics: Jemmy LaRoche’s “Raree Show”
Sarah F. Williams
8. Protean Objects in William Percy’s The Aphrodysial or Sea-Feast
Maria Shmygol
9. “I’ll Drown My Book”: Prospero’s Grimoire, Adrift
Emily E. F. Philbrick
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
