This year's volume offers many contributions on early modern drama alongside essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in religious spaces and artworks.Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2017 volume opens with a trio of essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in connection with the sacred spaces of St. Paul's Cathedral and of the Bichi Chapel frescoes in the Church of St. Agostino in Siena, as well as with Francisco de Zurburán's Crucifixion with a Painter. The majority of the volume'sessays concern early modern drama: botany and the body in Titus Andronicus; Ovidian sleep in Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, and Othello; chivalry in Richard II and 1 Henry IV; transhumanist discourse in Othello; obedience and devils in Dr. Faustus, and domesticity and commerce in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. The focus then shifts to the non-dramatic with reconsiderations of the intertextualities in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and the paratextualities in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. The final essay, on the Faerie Queene, explores the intended and unintended literary consequences of pairing humor with death. Contributors: Jasmin W. Cyril, Lisandra Estevez, Tony Perrello, Emily Johnson Roberts, Rachel M. De Smith Roberts, Deneen M. Sensai, Margaret Simon, Elisha Sircy, Susan C. Staub, Frances Teague, John N.Wall, Lewis Walker. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward J. Risvold of the University of California, San Diego.

The Contested Pliability of Sacred Space in St. Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Churchyard in Early Modern LondonClassicism from Urbino: The Bichi Chapel Frescoes by Francesco di Giorgio MartiniVisualizing the Paragone in Francisco de Zurbarán's Crucifixion with a PainterA Change in the Making: Shakespeare's Ovidian Sleep of Death and DisplayOld Black Rams and Mortal Engines: Transhumanist Discourse in OthelloDying with Speed and Felicity: Humor and Death in Book 3 of the Faerie Queene"If Devils Will Obey Thy Hest": Devils in Dr. Faustus and The French HistorieRewriting Lucrece: Intertextuality and the Tale of LucreceEconomy and "Honesty" in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in CheapsideGlossing Authorship: Printed Marginalia in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex JudaeorumBotany and the Maternal Body in Titus AndronicusUnhorsing the Lustiest Challenger: Reflections on Chivalry in Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1