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Book SynopsisArticles on works of Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marston, Webster, Jonson, Mary Wroth, and Milton; and two historical articles on aspects of the court of King James I. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year for presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Organized and sponsored in the early 1950s by Duke University and the universities of South Carolina and North Carolina, the annual meeting is now hosted by various colleges and universities across the southeastern United States. It accepts papers on all subjects relating to the Renaissance -- music, art, history, literature, etc. -- from scholars all over North America and Europe. Camden House has published Renaissance Papers for the Southeastern Renaissance Conference since 1996. Renaissance Papers1998 contains fourteen articles. Twelve are literary studies, reflecting different critical perspectives, on the works of Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marston, Webster, Jonson, Mary Wroth, and Milton. Two are historical/sociological studies of the court of King James I; one on the implications of Pocahontas's conversion and marriage to an Englishman and the other on the shifting expression of royal authority from public spectacle to the realmof learning in the medium of print.
Table of Contents"Learn then to rule us better and the realm" (1.4.39) - restoration of order and the boy king in "Edward II", Carla C. Prichard; prophetic authority and error - a biblical view of the present state of Ireland, Jaqueline McEvoy; mocking imperialism - a lively hyperbolical amplification in Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Grace L. Dillon; "Ripen justice in the Commonweal" - political decay and regeneration in "Titus Andronicus", Anthony Young; "These things are different" - sexual Calvinism in Donne's "Communitie", Andrew Shifflett; "I'll make one i' the masque" - John Marston's "The Malcontent" and the appropriation of the masque, Steven Hayward; the nubile savage - Pocahontas as heathen convert and Virgilian bride, Christopher Hodgkins; Platonic horses in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" - from passion to temperance, Peggy Munoz Simonds; gendered nostalgia in "The Duchess of Malfi", Mathew Winston; towards a British academy - the poet and the king in the commonwealth of learning, Lucile G. Appert; artful ambiguity and balance in Jonson's "new" poem on Nashe, Robert C. Evans; a tragicomedy - Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and critical reception, Wayne A. Chandler; the lady rises - stoicism and Spenser in Milton's "Comus", John McMichaels.
