James M Pearce & Ward J. Risvold 
Renaissance Papers 2017 [PDF ebook] 

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’s
Crucifixion with a Painter. The majority of the volume’sessays concern early modern drama: botany and the body in
Titus Andronicus; Ovidian sleep in
Romeo and Juliet,
The Winter’s Tale, and
Othello; chivalry in
Richard II and
1 Henry IV; transhumanist discourse in
Othello; obedience and devils in
Dr. Faustus, and domesticity and commerce in
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. The focus then shifts to the non-dramatic with reconsiderations of the intertextualities in Shakespeare’s
The Rape of Lucrece and the paratextualities in
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. The final essay, on the
Faerie 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.

Table des matières

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’s
Crucifixion with a Painter

A Change in the Making: Shakespeare’s Ovidian Sleep of Death and Display

Old Black Rams and Mortal Engines: Transhumanist Discourse in
Othello

Dying with Speed and Felicity: Humor and Death in Book 3 of the
Faerie Queene

‘If Devils Will Obey Thy Hest’: Devils in
Dr. Faustus and
The French Historie

Rewriting Lucrece: Intertextuality and the Tale of Lucrece

Economy and ‘Honesty’ in Thomas Middleton’s
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Glossing Authorship: Printed Marginalia in Aemilia Lanyer’s
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Botany and the Maternal Body in
Titus Andronicus

Unhorsing the Lustiest Challenger: Reflections on Chivalry in
Richard II and
Henry IV, Part 1

A propos de l’auteur

WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University.