Few readers today are aware of the vigorous prose experiments undertaken in the seventeenth century. This anthology presents a representative selection of that work, with examples from Aphra Benn, John Bunyan, William Congreve, Percy Herbert, and Thomas Dangerfield. Also included are Mary Wroth`s feminist romance Urania and Margaret Cavendish`s female utopia "The Blazing World", in print here for the first time since their original publication.