Features the best scholarly essays from the 2013 Southeastern Renaissance Conference held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, including essays on Renaissance poetics, friendship, and representations of women.

Features the best scholarly essays from the 2013 Southeastern Renaissance Conference held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, including essays on Renaissance poetics, friendship, and representations of women.



Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2013 volume features essays from the conference held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The volume opens with three reappraisals of Renaissance poetics. The first essay addresses the incarnational poetics in George Herbert's poetry; the second investigates the poetics of probability in Middleton'sA Yorkshire Tragedy; and the third considers an image from Colluthus'sRape of Helen, proposing new ways to understand allusion in Marlowe'sHero and Leander. The volume then turns to Renaissance representations of women with a discussion of "swooning" in George Gascoigne'sThe Adventures of Master F.J.; a discussion of prostitution, performance, and the art of AntiSprezzatura; and a discussion of identity, loss, and narration inThe Rapeof Lucrece. The center of the volume turns to an examination of friendship and the paratextual apparatus of Michel de Montaigne'sEssais, and then shifts to Shakespearean drama with essays onThe Comedy of ErrorsMeasure for Measure, andCymbeline. The volume closes with an essay on John Milton's historical iconoclasm in hisHistory of Britain.

Contributors: John Wall, Kevin Chovanec, Pamela Macfie, Margaret Simon, Mara Amster, Ruth Stevenson, Andrew Keener, Christopher Crosbie, Ward Risvold, Patricia Wareh, and Paul Stapleton.

Jim Pearce is an Associate Professor and Joanna Kucinski is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central University.

George Herbert's Incarnational Poetics
"What is there in three dice?": The Role of Demons in the History of Probability
Allusion as Plunder: Marlowe's, Hero and Leander, and Colluthus'sRape of Helen
Authorial Feints and Affecting Forms in George Gascoigne'sThe Adventures of Master F.J./
"A . . . harlot is true in nothing but in being false": Prostitute Performances and Anti-Sprezzatura
The Speaker's Depth of Character in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece
Prefatory Friendships: Florio's Montaigne and Material Technologies of the Self
The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation
"Cucullus non facit monachum": Hooded Words, Tricky Speech, and Licentia, in Measure for Measure
Reading Women: Chastity and Fictionality in Cymbeline
King Arthur, Badon Hill, and Iconoclasm in Milton's History of Britain