Shows how the character called Rosalind, who features in works by Spenser, Lodge, and Shakespeare, can be considered as a single and unifying character whose textual appearances lead us to reconsider important aspects of Renaissance literature: prosody, the influence of Virgil and of pastoral poetry, and the position of women. The main strengths of Hecht's monograph lie in the technical close readings he provides of both English and Latin poetry and the connections he is able to tease out from these to other contemporary sources.