Sixty-fifth annual volume, focusing notably on Shakespearean drama and the poetry of early modern England but with essays on a variety of other topics relevant to the period.

Sixty-fifth annual volume, focusing notably on Shakespearean drama and the poetry of early modern England but with essays on a variety of other topics relevant to the period.



Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2018 volume features essays presented at the conference at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The volume opens with four essays on Shakespearean drama, offering readings ranging from the heteroglossia inHenry VIII to the limits of language inKing Lear, social networks inAnthony and Cleopatra, and epiphanic excursions in the Shakespearean corpus. The next essays look at iconology, agency, and alterity on the early modern stage and colonial Peruvian art. The journal then returns us to the poetry of early modern England. The first of this group explores the perils of poor reading inThe Countess of Montgomery's Uriana and is followed by essays investigating the aesthetic connection between Spenser and Catullus and the sacred circularities in John Donne's "Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward." The volume concludes with an extended consideration of meritocracy and misogyny in the works of Ben Jonson.

Contributors: Nathan Dixon, Lisandra Estevez, Melissa J. Rack, Robert Lanier Reid, Rachel M. De Smith Roberts, Deneen Senasi, Jonathon Shelley, Kendall Spillman, John Wall, and Don E. Wayne.

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

"One Little Room, An Everywhere": Staging Silence in London's Blackfriars and Shakespeare's Henry VIII - Deneen M. Senasi
"What they are yet I know not": Speech, Silence, and Meaning inKing Lear - John N. Wall
Shakespearean Epiphany - Robert Lanier Reid
Between the "triple pillar" and "mutual pair": Love, Friendship, and Social Networks inAntony and Cleopatra - Jonathan Shelley
"Beauty Changed to Ugly Whoredom": Analyzing the Mermaid Figure inThe Changeling - Kendell Spillman
Imagining the Other in a Cuzco Defense of the Eucharist - Lisandra Estevez
A Critique of Poor Reading: Antissia's Madness inThe Countess of Montgomery's Urania - Rachel M. De Smith Roberts
"Thou thyself likewise art lyttle made": Spenser, Catullus, and the Aesthetics of "smale poemes" - Melissa J. Rack
Theordo salutis: Sacred Circularities in John Donne's "Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward" - Nathan Dixon
"Broken-Backed" Texts: Meritocracy and Misogyny in Ben Jonson'sThe Forrest - Don E. Wayne