Exploring the Renaissance 2003: An International Conference
March 6-8, 2003
Sponsored By:
- South-Central Renaissance Conference
- The Queen Elizabeth I Society
- The Andrew Marvell Society
- The University of New Orleans
- Tulane Univesity
Program Chair:
Raymond Frontain, Department of English, University of Central Arkansas
Arrangements Chair:
Susan Krantz, Department of English, University of New Orleans
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Thursday, March 6 Friday, March 7 Saturday, March 8Thursday, March 6
SESSION I (Thursday, 1:30-3:30 pm)
A. Poetics & Historiography (Gallier Salon)
Chair: W. Scott Howard (U of Denver)
W. Scott Howard (U of Denver), "Introduction: Figural Historicity: Plato to Puttenham"
Jennifer Kearny (U of Denver), "Poet and Reader as Entelechein in Astrophil and Stella"
Brian Bates (U of Denver), "The Poetics of Hamlet's pharmakon: Real Poisons in Fictitious Gardens"
Danielle Alexander (U of Denver), "Light and Time in Paradise Lost"
M. Neelika Jayawardane (U of Denver), "'For inferior, who is free?' Shakespeare's Richard III and Milton's Satan as Subalterns Who Speak Themselves into History"
B. Elizabeth in/as Text (Cathedral Salon)
Chair: Michael Hill (Xavier U)
Jennifer L. Heller (U of North Carolina), "'(For Now I Will Play the Blabbe)': Gender, Mimicry, and Queen Elizabeth"
John Kerr (St. Mary's U, Minnesota), "'And we fairies, that do run/ By the triple Hecate's team': Gender and Change in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Keith M. Botelho (U of New Hampshire), "The Aging Queen, A Youthful Rosalind, and the Crisis of Preservation"
Elizabeth Truax (Chapman U), "Queen Elizabeth I as King Arthur, An Iconographic Study"
C. Shakespeare, Politics, and Performance (Beauegard Salon)
Chair: Carole Levin (U of Nebraska)
Hesham Khadawardi (U of Nebraska-Lincoln), "The Merchant of Venice: A Tragedy"
Shannon L. Meyer (U of Nebraska-Lincoln), "Shakespeare's Political Commentary: Representations of Tudor Queens in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, The Winter's Tale, and King Henry VIII (All is True)"
Richardine Woodall (York U), "Shakespeare and the Paradox of History: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in The Tempest"
D. Seventeenth-Century British Literature (Presbytere Salon)
Chair: Paul Parrish (Texas A&M U)
Steven Matthews (U of Florida), "Implications of the Genesis Fall Narrative for Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna"
Raymond-Jean Frontain (U of Central Arkansas), "Silent Signs: Fuller, David, Writing"
Jacob Blevins (McNeese SU), "Finding Felicity through the 'Pythagorean Eye:' Pythagoreanism in the Work of Thomas Traherne"
Donald R. Dickson (Texas A&M U), "Henry Vaughan's Medical Practice"
E. Women in the Renaissance (Queen Anne Parlor)
Chair: Susan Ford (Delta SU)
Christine Couvillon (U of Nebraska-Lincoln), "The Enigma of the Educated Woman in Early Modern England: Margaret Roper and Juan Luis Vives' Ideal"
Louise Simons (Pelham, MA), "Imaging the Life of Lettice Morison Cary, Second Viscountess Falkland"
Dana Reinert and Jerome Dees (Kansas SU), "'Parts is Parts': The Blazon in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World"
Galina Yermolenko (DeSales U), "'The Bride of Suleiman': Hurrem Sultan in European History and Fiction"
F. Shakespeare I: Hamlet (Cabildo Salon)
Chair: John Mercer (Northeastern Oklahoma SU)
Charles L. Etheridge, Jr. (McMurry U), "When Hunters Gamble: Gambling in Hamlet"
Barbara M. Cobb (Murray SU), "North by Northwest: Geography, Semiotics, and Politics in Hamlet"
James Ortega (U of Louisiana, Lafayette), "The Mousetrap in Hamlet"
Claudia M. Champagne (Our Lady of Holy Cross C), "Lacan, Words, And Hamlet: 'To Be or Not to Be'"
Plenary Session:
William B. Hunter Lecture (Cabildo Salon)
4 - 5 PM
Presiding: Susan Krantz (U of New Orleans)
Welcoming Remarks: George Klawitter (St. Edwards U), SCRC President
Introduction of Speaker: Susan Krantz (U of New Orleans)
Russ McDonald (U of North Carolina, Greensboro)
"The Elizabethan Shakespeare"
RECEPTION
Friday, March 7
SESSION II (Friday 8:15-10:15 am)
A. Milton & Divorce (Cathedral Salon)
Chair: W. Scott Howard (U of Denver)
Sara van den Berg (St. Louis U), "Vignette, Metaphor, and Vituperation in Milton's Divorce Tracts"
W. Scott Howard (U of Denver), "Milton's 'Divorcive' Liberties: Ecclesiastical, Domestic or Private, Civil and Cosmological"
Sharon Hampel (U of Colorado), "No Agreement Shall Bind: Milton, Seldon and the Argument for Divorce and Democracy"
George Klawitter (St. Edwards U), "The Discourse of Special Pleading: Sir Charles Blount and John Milton on Divorce"
B. Renaissance Art I (Gallier Salon)
Chair: Margaret Flansburg (U of Central Oklahoma)
Yael Even (U of Missouri-St. Louis), "Four Fifteenth-Century Visual Variations on the Theme of Nessus's Abduction of Deianira in Fifteenth-Century Italy"
Liana De Girolami Cheney (U of Massachusetts, Lowell), "Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili A Garden of Neoplatonic Love"
Herbert C. Turrentine (Southern Methodist U), "Pieter Isaacsz' Vanity: Venus and the Lute Player: A Titian Parody"
Richard G. Mann (San Francisco SU), "El Greco, the Avant Garde, and Sexuality: Towards a Queer Reconstruction of El Greco"
C. Shakespeare II (Cabildo Salon)
Chair: James K. Lake (Louisiana SU, Shreveport)
Maurice Hunt (Baylor U), "'Forward Backward' Time and the Apocalypse in Hamlet"
Bonnie Melchior (U of Central Arkansas), "King Lear and Ran: A Sea Change into Something Rich and Strange"
Claire Manes (Lafayette, LA), "Richard's Approach to Time in Shakespeare's Richard II"
Emily Leverett (Ohio SU), "It Only Takes Two: The (re)Assertion of Heterosexual Couples in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
D. English Renaissance Drama I (Queen Anne Parlor)
Chair: Gerald W. Morton (Auburn U, Montgomery)
Carrie Shipers (Columbus, OH), "'Murder, Mischief, or Civil Sword at Length": Videna and the Politics of Estrangement in Gorboduc"
Joshua Phillips (U of Memphis), "Preface to Early Modern Alienation: Gamelyn, Lodge, Shakespeare"
Martha Reiner (Miami-Dade Community C), "Market Transformation and Critical Colonial Discourse in Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's Eastward Ho"
Brian W. Schneider (Manchester U), "Brother-sister Incest in Renaissance Drama: Desire, Power and Conflict"
E. Images of Elizabeth I, a Quadricentennial Celebration: Keynote Addresses I (Beauregard Salon)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Donald Stump (Saint Louis U)
Janel Mueller, (U of Chicago), Opening Remarks
Mary Hill Cole (Mary Baldwin C), "Elizabeth I and Her Family"
John Watkins (U of Minnesota), "Elizabeth through Venetian Eyes"
F. Seventeenth-Century British Literature (Presbytere Salon)
Chair: Renee Ramsey (Indiana SU)
Dan Mills (Georgia SU), "Jonson's Volpone and Failed Self-Fashioning"
Kate Frost (U of Texas, Austin), "Martha, Martha: Typology and Structure in The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth"
James S. Baumlin (Soutwest Missouri SU), "The Theology of Language in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana: Scriptural Pistis vs. the Classical Pisteis"
Paul A. Parrish (Texas A&M U), "Fitting Paradise Lost to an Audience Not So Few: Organizing a Public Reading of Milton's Epic Poem"
SESSION III (Friday 10:30-12:00)
A. Why Words Matter: The Subversive Power of Medical, Political, and Domestic Discourse in Early Modern England (Cabildo Salon)
Chair: Jennifer C. Vaught (U of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Erica Daigle (Louisiana SU), "Remedy for the Soul: Isabella Whitney's Feminized, Moralized, and Authorized Poetic Medicine"
Brant Deranger (U of Louisiana at Lafayette),"Patience: An Indication of Noble Cowardice in Shakespeare's Richard II"
Lana Henry (U of Louisiana at Lafayette), "'Troubled with the Mother' and the Father: The Politics of Breathing in The Tragedy of Miriam"
Respondent: Susannah Monta (Louisiana SU)
B. Seventeenth-Century Politics & Religion (Cathedral Salon)
Chair: Raymond Frontain (U of Central Arkansas)
Frances M. Malpezzi (Arkansas SU), "Sylvester Militant: Battering Tobacco for God and Country"
Matt Oliver (Southwest Missouri SU), "The 1606 Oath of Allegiance and Power 'Plays': James I, John Donne, and Performative Authority in Language"
Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern SU), "Money, Class, and Spiritual Conduct in Seventeenth-Century England"
C. Music I (Queen Anne Parlor)
Chair: Katherine Powers (California SU, Fullerton)
Andrew Weaver (Yale U), "Sacred Music and Monarchical Representation in tempore belli: The Austrian Habsburgs at the End of the Thirty Years' War"
Christine Getz (U of Iowa), "Liturgical Function and Marketing Strategies in Orfeo Vechi's Psalmi integri of 1596"
Kathryn R. English (U of Pittsburgh), "A Musical Response to the Reformation: Choirbooks 31, 32, 33, and 40 from the Hofkapelle of Ulrich VI of Wurttemberg"
D. Renaissance Art II (Gallier Salon)
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney (U of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Margaret Flansburg (U of Central Oklahoma), "The Legenda Aurea and the Frescoes of Sant' Agostino in Fabriano"
Marlene B. Kerrigan (Portland SU), "'Bruegel's Print of the Virtue of Temperance: A Satire on the Seven Liberal Arts"
Giles Pennington (Albuquerque Academy), "Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in the Frick Collection: An Unnecessary Mystery"
E. Images of Elizabeth I: Writing, Intoning, and Controlling the Royal Image (Beauregard Salon)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Renee Bricker (U of Detroit Mercy).
Sarah Duncan (Tulane U), "The Two Virgin Queens"
Lester Brothers (U of North Texas), "'...so rayre a Bull...as sweete as Byrd...': The Hexachord Fantasia as Elizabethan Tribute"
Anna Riehl (U of Illinois at Chicago), "'A Seeming Seat for Princely Grace': The Politics of Describing Elizabeth I"
F. Elizabethan Literature (Presbytere Salon)
Chair: Joan Faust (X)
Kimball Smith (U of Iowa), "Mapping Gold and Illusion: Sir Walter Ralegh's 'Discoverie of...Guiana'"
Jessica Winston (Idaho SU), "The Politics of Form in A Mirror for Magistrates"
Lesel Dawson (U of Bristol), "Rebellious Tears: Melancholy and Opposition under Elizabeth I"
Lunch (on one's own, 12-1:30)
SESSION IV (Friday, 1:30-3:30 pm)
A. Geographical Places in Shakespeare (Cathedral Salon)
Chair: David M. Bergeron (U of Kansas)
David M. Bergeron (U of Kansas), "Location, Location, Location: Shakespeare's Early Plays"
Daniel Kulmala (Fort Hays SU), "'Art thou but captain of a thousand horse': Itemization and the Practice of Place in Early Modern English Culture"
David Ruiter (U of Texas at El Paso), "'Anon, anon, sir': Cohesion and Division in the Boar's Head Tavern"
Geraldo de Sousa (Xavier U), "Shakespeare and the Phenomenology of the House"
B. Renaissance History (Presbytere Salon)
Chair: Irving A. Kelter (U of St. Thomas)
Ronald Fritze (U of Central Arkansas), "The English Reformation: Revisionism and Post Revisionism"
William B. Robison (Southeastern Louisiana U), "Conflict, Consensus, Class, and Community: The Historiography of English Counties, 1400-1700"
Connie Evans (Baldwin-Wallace C), "The Tools of a Historian: The Use of Wills in Poverty Research in Early Modern England"
Linda Bradley Salamon (George Washington U), "Vagabond Veterans: The Roguish Company of Martin Guerre and Henry V"
C. Public Space and Images of Power (Gallier Salon)
Chair: Lawrence Jenkens (U of New Orleans)
Deborah Cibelli (Nicholls SU), "Early Ducal Imagery of Cosmo I in the Sala dell' Udienza"
Rachel Hostetter Smith (Taylor U), "Old Age and the Venetian DogateÐ A Republican Ideal?"
Jill E. Blondin (U of Texas at Tyler), "Power Made Visible: Pope Sixtus IV as Urbis Restaurator in Quattrocento Rome"
Yanel E. De Angel (Baltimore, MD), "Lo Scoppio Del Carro a Firenze: The Unfolding of an Urban Architectural Ritual"
D. Music II (Queen Anne Parlor)
Chair: Christine Getz (U of Iowa)
Randy Kinnett (Denton, TX), "Busnois's On a grant mal/ On est bien malade: An Unusual Combinative Chanson"
Timothy R. McKinney (Baylor U), "Music and Rhetoric in Vicentino's Solo e pensoso"
Jennifer Thomas (U of Florida), "Personal Narrative Through Textual Allusions in a Music Manuscript"
Letitia Glozer (U of North Carolina), "Pietro Bembo and the Madrigal: Jacques du Pont's Cinquanta Stanze del Bembo
E. Images of Elizabeth I: Keynote Addresses II (Beauregard Salon)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Susannah Monta (Louisiana State U)
Steven May (Georgetown C), "The Queen Addresses Her Subjects: The Tilbury and 'Golden' Speeches.'"
Donald Stump (Saint Louis U), "Elizabeth, the French Duke, and the English Bible Thumpers: Reshaping Royal Iconography, 1578-1603"
F. The Poetry of Meditation at Fifty: The Impact and Legacy of Louis B. Martz (Cabildo Salon)
Chair: Phoebe S. Spinrad (Ohio SU)
William E. Engel (Nashville, TN), "Extending Martz's 'Emblematic' Approach to Quarles"
John T. Shawcross (U of Kentucky, emeritus), "Form, Tone and Circumstance: Poetic Meditation"
Sara van den Berg (St. Louis U), "Meditating on The Poetry of Meditation"
Robert V. Young (North Carolina SU), "The Poetry of Meditation and the Aesthetics of Devotional Intention"
Plenary Session:
Louis Martz Award
Presiding: Donald Stump (St. Louis U), SCRC Vice-President
Derek Alwes (Ohio SU)
"'To serve your prince by . . . an honest dissimulation': The New Arcadia as a Defence of Poetry"
Dinner (on one's own)
Queen Elizabeth I Society Social Event:
The Queen's Revels (9:00-11:00 pm)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Mistress of the Revels: Janel Mueller (U of Chicago)
Royal entertainments. Auction of manye Sumptuous and Precious Ytems from her Majestie's attic at the Royal Palace of Nonesuch. To be sold at verie prettie prices. All proceedes graciously assigned by Her Grace to the support of a notable, worthie and Secret cause.
Saturday, March 8
BUSINESS MEETINGS (Saturday, 8:00-8:45 a.m.)
A. SCRC (Cabildo Salon)
B. Queen Elizabeth I Society (Beauregard Salon)
C. Andrew Marvell Society (Queen Anne Parlor)
SESSION V (Saturday, 8:45-10:15 a.m.)
A. Early Modern English Women as Readers and Writers (Queen Anne Parlor)
Chair: Kate Narveson (Luther C)
Sabrina Alcorn Baron (U of Maryland), "Marginal Readers Reading in Early Modern England"
Kate Narveson (Luther C), "Selected Scripture Sentences: Gender and Compositions in the Meditations of Lady Grace Mildmay"
Lysbeth Em Benkert (Northern SU), "Anne Dowriche and The Golden Legend"
B. Shakespearean Comedy (Cabildo Salon)
Chair: Charles Louis Stagg (Memphis SU, emeritus)
Mary Villeponteaux (U of Southern Mississippi), "An Elizabethan Portia"
Sean Benson (Malone C), "'Cucullas non facit monachum' or What You Will: Reading in Twelfth Night"
John R. Ford (Delta SU), "'Estimable Wonder': Recognizing Twelfth Night at the Globe"
C. English Drama II (Cathedral Salon)
Chair: David Reinheimer (Southeast Missouri SU)
Emily R. Isaacson (U of Missouri, Columbia), "Relocating Devices: The Masque in Middleton's Your Five Gallants"
Wendy Wolters (Ohio SU), "'Sh'as made her name an empress by that act': Dead Women's Justice in The Revenger's Tragedy"
Nate Pritts (Lafayette, LA), "'O, do not rant, do not turn player': John Marston and the Tyranny of Genre"
D. Renaissance Law and Commerce (Gallier Salon)
Chair: Wendy Kasinec (New Orleans, LA)
Karl Josef Holtgen (U Erlangen-Nurnberg), "Trade and Politics: John Wheeler (1560-1617), Secretary of the Merchant Adventureres at Middelburg and Author of A Treatise of Commerce (1601)"
Nancy Bunker (U of Tulsa), "Estate Windfall: Sons-in-Law, Inheritance Authority, and Dynastic Decision"
E. Images of Elizabeth I: Contesting the Royal Image (Beauregard Salon)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Louis Roper (SUNY, New Paltz)
Robert E. Stillman (U of Tennessee at Knoxville), "Resisting Readers: Elizabeth, Hermeneutics, and The Quenes Majesties Passage"
Thomas Herron (Hampden-Sidney C), "From Rathlin's Massacre to Kenilworth's Majesty: A Reexamination of the Imperial and Georgic Strains of Elizabeth's Pageantry, 1575-1593"
Michele Osherow (U of Maryland, Baltimore County), "Give ear o' princes': Deborah, Elizabeth and the Right Word"
F. French Renaissance Literature (Presbytere Salon)
Chair: TBA
Zoe Goss Urbanek (Southern Methodist U), "Marguerite de Navarre and Spain"
Jenny L. Davis (Emory U), "Emblematic Reflections: Narcissus in Art and Poetry"
SESSION VI (Saturday, 10:30-12:00)
A. Method, Revelation, and Imitation: Formations of the English Reformation (Cathedral Salon)
Chair: Kenneth Alan Hovey (U of Texas at San Antonio)
Kendrick Wheeler Prewitt (U of the Ozarks), "Perkins, Puritanism, and Method"
Elena Levy-Navarro (U of Wisconsin at Whitewater), "John Bale and the Revelation of Sodomy"
Jesse G. Swan (U of Northern Iowa), "Imitation and the English Reformation's Humanism: William Baldwin's Beware the Cat"
B. Tudor Literature (Queen Anne Parlor)
Chair: John Mercer (Northeastern Oklahoma SU)
W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. (Louisiana SU, Eunice), "Mamillia, 'The Flower of Venice,' in Robert Greene's Early Modern Prose Romance, Mamillia, Part 1"
Chris Martin (San Marcos, TX), "The Pot's Cure: Hidden Pleasure and the Androgyny of Desire in George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.C."
David Strong (U of Texas, Tyler), "Supra-Natural Creation in Dunbar's The Goldyn Targe"
C. Shakespeare IV (Cabildo Salon)
Chair: Martha Oberle (Washington, D.C.)
Dawn Colley (U of Texas, El Paso), "God's Substitute: The Prostitution of Church in Measure for Measure"
Lisa Marie Byrd (U of Missouri-Columbia), "'Wouldnst thou be windowed in great Rome/ And see thy master thus...?': Judgment, Perception, and the Gaze in Antony and Cleopatra"
Kara Northway (U of Kansas), "The Two Noble Kinsmen: Exceeding the 'Compass' of Politics, Chastity, and Romance"
D. Marvell and Donne (Gallier Salon)
Chair: Frances Malpezzi (Arkansas SU)
Catherine I Cox (Texas A&M, Corpus Christi), "God's 'Treasury' of Mercy and Justice: John Donne's 'The First Sermon After Our Dispersion by the Sickness...'"
David Cunnington (Worcester C, Oxford), "Marvell and the Chase"
Marlin E. Blaine (California SU, Fullerton), "Marvell's Horatian Ode and The Body Politic"
E. Images of Elizabeth I, a Quadricentennial Celebration: Keynote Addresses III (Beauregard Salon)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin (U of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Ilona Bell (Williams C), "Elizabeth Tudor-Poet"
Panel: Ilona Bell, Mary Hill Cole, Stephen May, Donald Stump, and John Watkins: Research Opportunities in Elizabeth I Studies and Open Discussion of Papers Delivered at the Conference
Awarding of the Agnes Strickland Prize for best paper in the open sessions
Janel Mueller (U of Chicago): Closing remarks
F. Religion in the Renaissance (Presbytere Salon)
Chair: Jim Boyden (Tulane U)
Irving A. Kelter (U of St. Thomas), "Cornelius Valerius (1512-1578) and the Dissolution of the Medieval Cosmos"
Tim Rosendale (Dedman C), "The Liturgical Dialectic"
Alisa Plant (Yale U), "Confessional Violence in Early Seventeenth-Century France"
Luncheon (12:15)
Presiding: George Klawitter (St. Edwards U), SCRC President
Introduction: Raymond-Jean Frontain (U of Central Arkansas), SCRC Program Chair