This year's volume offers many contributions on early modern drama alongside essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in religious spaces and artworks.

This year's volume offers many contributions on early modern drama alongside essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in religious spaces and artworks.



Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2017 volume opens with a trio of essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in connection with the sacred spaces of St. Paul's Cathedral and of the Bichi Chapel frescoes in the Church of St. Agostino in Siena, as well as with Francisco de Zurburán'sCrucifixion with a Painter. The majority of the volume'sessays concern early modern drama: botany and the body inTitus Andronicus; Ovidian sleep inRomeo and JulietThe Winter's Tale, andOthello; chivalry inRichard II and1 Henry IV; transhumanist discourse inOthello; obedience and devils inDr. Faustus, and domesticity and commerce inA Chaste Maid in Cheapside. The focus then shifts to the non-dramatic with reconsiderations of the intertextualities in Shakespeare'sThe Rape of Lucrece and the paratextualities inSalve Deus Rex Judaeorum. The final essay, on theFaerie Queene, explores the intended and unintended literary consequences of pairing humor with death.

Contributors: Jasmin W. Cyril, Lisandra Estevez, Tony Perrello, Emily Johnson Roberts, Rachel M. De Smith Roberts, Deneen M. Sensai, Margaret Simon, Elisha Sircy, Susan C. Staub, Frances Teague, John N.Wall, Lewis Walker.

The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward J. Risvold of the University of California, San Diego.

The Contested Pliability of Sacred Space in St. Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Churchyard in Early Modern London
Classicism from Urbino: The Bichi Chapel Frescoes by Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Visualizing the Paragone in Francisco de Zurbarán'sCrucifixion with a Painter
A Change in the Making: Shakespeare's Ovidian Sleep of Death and Display
Old Black Rams and Mortal Engines: Transhumanist Discourse inOthello
Dying with Speed and Felicity: Humor and Death in Book 3 of theFaerie Queene
"If Devils Will Obey Thy Hest": Devils inDr. Faustus andThe French Historie
Rewriting Lucrece: Intertextuality and the Tale of Lucrece
Economy and "Honesty" in Thomas Middleton'sA Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Glossing Authorship: Printed Marginalia in Aemilia Lanyer'sSalve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Botany and the Maternal Body inTitus Andronicus
Unhorsing the Lustiest Challenger: Reflections on Chivalry inRichard II andHenry IV, Part 1