Yearly volume containing twelve essays on topics from Shakespeare to Middleton, Donne, Propertius, political resistance and legitimation, Elizabethan anthologies, and Milton.

Yearly volume containing twelve essays on topics from Shakespeare to Middleton, Donne, Propertius, political resistance and legitimation, Elizabethan anthologies, and Milton.

This volume collects the best scholarly essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference in 2006. Two focus on Shakespeare: one on twins inThe Comedy of Errors, one on differences between the Quarto and Folio versions of the reunion of Lear and Cordelia. Three essays deal with non-Shakespearean drama, examining the unvarying prefatory matter in frequently reprinted dramatic texts, economic systems in Middleton's city comedy, and theoriesof political resistance in revenge tragedy. Political resistance is also the theme of an essay on the satires of Donne and Propertius, while political legitimation is the subject of one on Medici family portraiture. Two essays concern Elizabethan anthologies: one on the unexamined collectionYouthes Witte, the other on childbirth prayers inThe Monument of Matrones. One essay on Milton's treatment of forgiveness and two on hisSamson Agonistes conclude the volume, showing the unexpected affinities between Milton's tragedy and Jonson's comedyBartholomew Fair and meditating upon the challenge to interpretation posed by end of the play.

Contributors: John Adrian, David Bergeron, Kevin Donovan, Heather L. Sale Holian, Matthew T. Lynch, Steven W. May, Andrew Shifflett, Gerald Snare, Susan C. Staub, Emily Stockard, Lewis Walker, and George Walton Williams

M. Thomas Hester is Professor of English at North Carolina State University, and Christopher Cobb is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Mary's College.

Youthes Witte: An Unstudied Elizabethan Anthology of Printed Verse and Prose Fiction - Steven W. May
The Power of Association: A Study in the Legitimization of Bianca Cappello through Medici Matriarchal Portraiture - Heather L. Sale Holian
Vindicta andVindiciae on the Early English Stage: Imagining Revenge through Huguenot Resistance Theory - John Adrian
Breaking the Head of the Serpent: Women's Childbirth Prayers inTheMonument of Matrones - Susan C Staub
"Conquered nations mean nothing in love": Political Dissent in Propertius'sElegy II.7 and Donne's "Love's Warre" - Matthew T Lynch
Correcting Double Vision inThe Comedy of Errors - George Walton Williams
Lear's Awakening: Texts and Contexts - Kevin J Donovan
The Power of Fantasy in Middleton'sChaste Maid: A Cost/Benefit Analysis - Emily Stockard
Invariant Paratexts in English Dramatic Texts - David M. Bergeron
Milton and Forgiveness - Andrew E. Shifflett
Samson at the Fair - Lewis Walker
The End ofSamson Agonistes - Gerald Snare