Contents: Foreword; The riddle of transubstantiation, Douglas Burnham; Real accidents, surfaces and digestions: Descartes and the 'very easily explained' transubstantiation, Tomaso Cavallo; The transubstantial bard: Shakespeare and Catholicism, Michael Davies; Transubstantiating the performance: towards a mimetic narrative in Hamlet's Hecuba scene, Silvia Bigliazzi; Transubstantiating love: John Donne and cultural criticism, Andy Mousley; A 'deformed' christianity: ethical transubstantiation in English Reformation plays, Nicoletta Caputo; From substantial body into evanescent ghost: the world of James Macpherson's Ossianic 'fragments', Laura Giovannelli; Shakespeare as Paraclitus: transubstantiation in Joyce and T.S. Eliot, Francesco Gozzi; Food for the soul: reading Mrs Ramsay's bÅ"uf en daube, Catherine Burgass; Reformations: Ford Madox Ford and transubstantiation, Martin Stannard; Lost in translation: gender and the figure of the translator in contemporary queer fiction, Emma Parker; Conrad and Scola: transposing the Heart of Darkness into film, Mario Curreli; RSC 1999: enter guilt on the stage of conscience: The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot, Carla Dente; Embodying the past: vocal transubstantiation in Erri De Luca's Tu, mio, Marina Spunta; Sculptural transubstantiations: reflections upon wax, flesh and stone, blood, bread and bone, Alison Yarrington; Bibliography; Index.