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Book SynopsisEleven articles on aspects of the Renaissance, chief among them women writers, art, and drama. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to 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. The conference accepts papers on all subjects relating to the Renaissance -- music, art, history, literature, etc. -- from scholars all over North America and Europe. This is the forty-seventh volume of Renaissance Papers. It includes articles on 15th-c. Florentine wedding chests, called cassoni, on Isabella Whitney, on Spenser's 'April' woodcut, on Cervantes' El Trato del Argel, on Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears over Jerusalem, on the crone as type in English Renaissance drama, on female speech and disempowerment in Marlowe's Tamberlane I, on Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II, on Chaucer's contribution to The Tempest, and on echoes of Ovid in Donne's elegies. T. H. HOWARD-HILL and PHILIP ROLLINSON are professors of English at the University of South Carolina.
Table of ContentsCassoni: The Inside Story - Jo-Kate Collier "We Are Not All Alyke nor of Complexion One": Truism and Isabella Whitney's Multiple Readers - Boyd M. Berry Allusive Resonance in the Woodcut in Spenser's "April" - Hugh Davis El Trato del Argel: A First Step Towards the Creation of a Masterpiece - Pamela Peek Voices of Prophecy and Prayer in Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem - Catherine I. Cox Types of the Crone: The Nurse and the Wise Woman in English Renaissance Drama - Jeanne A. Roberts "Divine Zenocrate," "Wretched Zenocrate": Female Speech and Disempowerment in Tamberlane I - Pam Whitfield Narrativity: Edward II and Richard II - George L. Geckle Chaucer's Contribution to The Tempest: A Reappraisal - Lewis Walker "Over Reconing" the "Undertones": A Preface to "Some Elegies" by John Donne - M. Thomas Hester A Partial Liberty: Gender and Class in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The Concealed Fancies - Robin O. Warren
