Christopher Cobb & M. Thomas Hester 
Renaissance Papers 2006 [PDF ebook] 

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 in
The 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 collection
Youthes Witte, the other on childbirth prayers in
The Monument of Matrones. One essay on Milton’s treatment of forgiveness and two on his
Samson Agonistes conclude the volume, showing the unexpected affinities between Milton’s tragedy and Jonson’s comedy
Bartholomew 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.

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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 and
Vindiciae on the Early English Stage: Imagining Revenge through Huguenot Resistance Theory – John Adrian

Breaking the Head of the Serpent: Women’s Childbirth Prayers in
The
Monument of Matrones – Susan C Staub

‘Conquered nations mean nothing in love’: Political Dissent in Propertius’s
Elegy II.7 and Donne’s ‘Love’s Warre’ – Matthew T Lynch

Correcting Double Vision in
The Comedy of Errors – George Walton Williams

Lear’s Awakening: Texts and Contexts – Kevin J Donovan

The Power of Fantasy in Middleton’s
Chaste 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 of
Samson Agonistes – Gerald Snare