Part 1 Theories and Philosophies of Transmission: Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans Richard Wilson Shakespeare's paradoxes of excellence David Levin Shakespeare and the atomist heritage Jonathan Pollock Part 2 Initiation Practices: Hilliard and Sidney's 'rule of the eye' Anne-Valerie Dulac Mercurial apprentices in city comedies Christophe Hausermann The courtesan and her mother in Middleton's A Mad World, my Masters Chantal Schutz Rumour and second-hand knowledge in Much Ado About Nothing Claire Gueron Part 3 Political and Spiritual Issues: Marlowe's political balancing act: religion and translatio imperii in Doctor Faustus (B) Roy Eriksen Magic, manipulation and misrule in Doctor Faustus and Measure for Measure Francois Laroque Shakespeare and the violation of sanctuary Joseph Sterrett Limited being: revising Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy Noam Reisner Part 4 Transgressions of Gender and Genre: Cephalus and Procris: the transmission of a myth in early modern England Sarah Anne Brown Out-Oviding Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis Laetitia Sansonetti From intertextual to gender transgression in Middleton's The Witch Pierre Kapitaniak 'Transversing' and 'transprosing': the case of George Villiers's The Rehearsal (1671) Denis Lagae-Devoldere Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Grupo Galpao's Romeu e Julieta Livia Segurado Afterword: 'Love's transgression' Ewan Fernie.