Renaissance Papers 2020 (EPDF) von Ward J. Risvold

Collection of the best scholarly essays from the 2020 Southeastern Renaissance Conference plus essays submitted directly to the journal. Topics run from the epic to influence studies to the perennial problem of love and beyond.

Post-Marian Piety in Edmund Spenser'sFaerie Queene: The Case of Belphoebe
Jesse Russell
Confessions and Obfuscations: Just War andHenry V
Nathan P. Gilmour
"Unfinished Epics: Spenser'sFaerie Queene, Shakespeare'sHenriad, and the Mystic Plenum"
Robert Lanier Reid

Translating and Fragmenting Nature in The Divine Weeks
Kevin Chovanec

"The beautifullest Creature living": Cross-dressing Knights in Mary Wroth'sUrania and Margaret Tyler'sMirror of Princely Deeds
Rachel M. De Smith Roberts
"T'was I that Murdered thee": Heartbreak, Murder, and Justice in Early Modern Haunted Lovers' Ballads
Savannah Jensen

"Love at First Sight": The Narrator's Perspective in Marlowe'sHero and Leander
John N. Wall
Recentering the Forest in Early Modern England
Nicholas Ciavarra
"The house received all ornaments to grace it:" Cavendish, Lanyer, and the Cavalier Ideal ofBonum Vitae
Margaret C. Sanders
A Gentleman of Syracuse: Claudio Mario D'Arezzo and Sicilian Nationalism in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Anne Maltempi
Make Your Mark: Signatures of Queens Regnant in England and Scotland during the 16th Century
Heather R. Darsie