Against the rule of reason / Richard Strier -- Commotion strange / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Poses and passions / Zirka Z. Filipczak -- Compassion in the public sphere of Milton and King Charles / John Staines -- Melancholy cats, lugged bears, and early modern cosmology / Gail Kern Paster -- English mettle / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- Hearing green / Bruce Smith -- Humoral knowledge and liberal cognition in Davenant's Macbeth / Katherine Rowe -- Five pictures of pathos / Gary Tomlinson -- Passions and the interests in early modern Europe / Victoria Kaln -- Sadness in The faerie queene / Douglas Trevor -- Par accident / Jane Tylus -- Strange alteration / Timothy Hampton.