Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, Laurie Ellinghausen sheds new light on the construction of the early modern renegade and its depiction in English prose, poetry, and drama during a period of capitalist expansion.

1. "Unquiet Hotspurs": Stukeley, Vernon, and the Renegade
2. "We are of the Sea!": Masterless Identity and Transnational Context in A Christian Turned Turk
3. "lend us your lament": Purser and Clinton on the Scaffold
4. "extravagant thoughts": The Sherley Brothers and the Future of Renegade England
5. "skillful in their art": Criminal Biography and the Renegade Inheritance