Professor Shinsuke Ando, of the University of Keio, is among the mostdistinguished scholars of medieval and Renaissance English literature.To celebrate his sixtieth birthday, friends and colleagues fromaround the world have contributed to this collection of essays on topicsof special interest to him, including Chaucer, Gower, Malory, medievalromance, sixteenth-century drama, Sidney, and Shakespeare. The Western European and US contributors are: LORD BUTTERFIELD,THWAITE, BREWER, HARDY, KERRIGAN, FICHTE, MROCZKOWSKI, HAAS, AXTON, AHRENS, SPEARING, BURROW, MORSE, BEADLE, BLAKE, WINDEATT. The Japanese contributors are: FUJII, IWASAKI, NOGUCHI, NOJIMA, OIZUMI, TAKADA, TAKAHASHI, TAKAMIYA, UENO, KAWACHI.