Renaissance Papers 2024

<b><i>Renaissance Papers</i> collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference</b>. <br><br><br>The 2024 volume features essays from the conference held at The Citadel as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The opening essay focuses on an idiosyncratic strategy used for fundraising by the English Crown: Queen Elizabeth's poetry lottery. Five essays on Shakespeare probe the complexity of his plays. The first is a Jungian analysis of how the archetype of the dragon manifests itself in <i>King Lear</i>. It is followed by a study of how early modern exercise culture constructs masculinity and health in <i>As You Like It</i>. A provocative reinterpretation of <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> then illuminates the culturally subversive way in which Shakespeare portrays his fairies. The fourth and fifth essays examine the implications of female political agency in <i>Measure for Measure..</i>