Preface: Renaissance Configurations; G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY 'Infinite Riches in a Little Room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet; J. Knowles Shakespeare 'Creepes into the Women's Closets about Bedtime': Women Reading in a Room of Their Own; S. Roberts 'A Book, and Solitariness': Melancholia Gender and Literary Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania; H. Hackett PART II: DESIRING DIFFERENCE Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao; M. Pincombe 'With Phoebus' Amorous Pinches Black': the Desirability of Difference in Early Modern Culture; K Chedgzoy A Rose for Emilia: Collaborative Relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen; G. Kinsmen PART III: NAMING/LOCATING Space for the Self: Place, Persona, and Self-Projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles; A. Piesse Calling Things By Their Names': Troping Prostitution, Politics, and The Dutch Courtesan; M. Thornton Burnett PART IV: VOICING THE PAST Spectres and Sisters: Mary Sidney and the `Perennial Puzzle' of Renaissance Women's Writing; S. Trill What Echo Says in Seventeenth-Century Women's Poetry: Wroth, Behn; S.J. Wiseman Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips; R. Ballaster Afterword; A. Thompson