Renaissance Papers 2000 (2000)

<p>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.</p>