Contents

• Suffering in plague-time
• The best practices for change
• Thomas More’s pestilence in parentheses
• Breath infect breath : plague in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens
• What a great loss in hope? : Jonson’s the Alchemist
• Plague in the foundation : building toward the New Atlantis
• Fly from that pestilent destruction : Margaret Cavendish’s prescriptions
• Fables and fancies : the style of hope in Bacon and Cavendish
• The rectification of air and the pursuit of paradise