"Arthur Kinney has made so many contributions to the study of English literature, in so many different roles, that it can be difficult to reckon with the true sum of his achievement. . . . His curiosity encompasses an entire world and all the things in it, the very world that English Renaissance thinkers inhabited and approached with the same comprehensive spirit of inquiry. . . . Every topic to which he turns in these pages is pursued with impeccable scholarly rigor. . . . To pursue new approaches as Kinney has done year after year and decade after decade requires the nerve to risk failure, even repeated failure. It demands that the scholar constantly explore unfamiliar ground where the feet are still unsure and use analytical tools before they have grown familiar in the hand. It asks the thinker to move outside the security of expertise, the writer to advance arguments that may not succeed. . . . [Kinney] has provided us a wholly different model of a distinguished scholarly career, spending decades in pursuit of intellectual risk and adventure."—James J. Marino, author of Owning William Shakespeare: The King's Men and Their Intellectual Property

Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University ofMassachusetts Amherst. He is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kristeller LifetimeAchievement Award of the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Robertson LifetimeAchievement Award of the International Sidney Society.

"The essays collected here touch on many of the topics that have interested and provoked Arthur Kinney over the course of his fifty-year career. . . . The topical range is remarkable, the erudition on display extensive. These essays represent a mind passionately immersed in the plenitude of Renaissance culture, as well as in the give and take of scholarly dialogue."—Valerie Traub, author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England

"Renaissance Reflections brings together Kinney's most significant contributions to English Renaissance studies. . . . They represent the wide-ranging concerns of a scholar deeply engaged with Continental and English humanism, literary history and historicism, emerging nationhood, and relations between performance and text."—SEL: Studies in English Literature

"One notes how many of the essays in this volume seem to embody the social, collaborative nature of the early modern humanism that is among Kinney's favored topics: they begin in dialogue with other scholars and progress via a broad-based learning that can only come from a lifetime of scholarly reading and collation."—Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama