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South-Central Renaissance Conference News and Notes, a bi-annual newsletter edited by David Reinheimer of Southeast Missouri State University.


An official publication of the South-Central Renaissance Conference, the newsletter features news, reviews, and short articles on Early Modern literature, music, art, and architecture. Also included is membership news, notes on future Conference meetings, coming events, and calls for papers.


In the spring (2004) issue (Vol. 21, No. 1), you can enjoy the following:

  • "Relocating Devices: The Masque in Middleton's Your Five Gallants" by Emily R. Isaacson, University of Missouri
  • "Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: A Garden of Neoplatonic Love" by Liana de Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  • "The Repertory of the London Playhouse. Part IV: The Houses South of the River: Newington Butts, Rose, Swan, Hope" by Brian Jay Corrigan, North Georgia State University
  • Review Article: "Post-Revisionism and the English Reformation" by Ronald Fritze, University of Central Arkansas

In the fall (2003) issue (Vol. 20, No. 2), you can read the following:

  • "Bernini's Faun Teased by Children" by Lilian H. Zirpolo, Rutgers University
  • "'Shape thy Life by Ther Pattern': The Advice Letters of Lady Mary Fane, Countess of Westmorland" by Gerald W. Morton, Auburn University, Montgomery
  • "The Repertory of the London Playhouse. Part III: The Houses North of the River--The Theatre, Curtain, Boar's Head, Fortune, Red Bull" by Brian Jay Corrigan, North Georgia State University
  • Book review by Raymond Frontain (University of Central Arkansas) of Ramie Targoff, Common Prayer: The Language of Private Devotion in Early Modern England

In the spring (2003) issue (Vol. 20, No. 1), read the following:

  • "Naming Cromwell: Marvell's Dilemma" by Margaret Oakes, Furman University
  • "Two Sides of a Coin: Death and Redemption in Titian's Last Paintings" by Zbynek Smetana, Murray State University
  • "The Repertory of the London Playhouse. Part II: The Children's Houses--St. Paul's, First and Second Blackfriars, Whitefriars" by Brian Jay Corrigan, North Georgia State University
  • "Giorgione as Hero" by Norman E. Land, University of Missouri
  • Book review by George Klawitter (St. Edward's University) of Kenneth Borris, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton

In the fall (2002) issue (Vol. 19, No. 2), experience the following:

  • "The Sitter's New Clothes: Botticelli's Portrait of a Lady and the Construction of Social Identiy in Renaissance Florence" by Lisa Y. Koruga
  • "The Repertory of the London Playhouse. Part I: The North Bank Coterie--Puddle Wharf, The Phoenix/Cockpit, Salisbury Court" by Brian jay Corrigan, North Georgia State University
  • "Death and Desire in Marvell's 'Damon the Mower'" by Andrew Kinney, The Ohio State University
  • "The Drama of Accusation and Defense: The Case of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell" by Gerald W. Morton, Auburn University-Montgomery
  • Book review by Barbara L. Watson (Southwest Missouri State University) of Deborah Aldrich-Watson's The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler

In the spring (2002) issue (Vol. 19, No. 1), thrill to the following:

  • "Botticelli's Interpretation of 'Antiquity': Camilla/Minerva and the Centaur" by Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  • "An Ovidian 'Farthest Greece' in Errors, Titus, and Pericles" by Clifford J. Ronan, Southwest Texas State University
  • "The Stagecraft of John Marston in Antonio's Revenge" by Jay Corrigan, North Georgia College and State University
  • Book review by Ronald H. Fritze (University of Central Arkansas) of Barbara Howard Traister's The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman

In the fall (2001) issue (Vol. 18, No. 2), enjoy the following pieces:

  • "Animal Testimony in Renaissance Art" by William J. Scheick, University of Texas at Austin
  • "Revenge as Double Standard in The Tragedy of Hoffman" by Sarah J. Glady
  • "An Examination of Selected Operas Based on Dramatic and Poetic Works of Shakespeare" by Herbert C. Turrentine, Emeritus, Southern Methodist University
  • Book review by Ronald H. Fritze (Lamar University) of Peter Russell's Prince Henry "The Navigator": A Life
  • Book review by Judith L. Barban (Winthrop University) of Rosalind Brown-Grant's Christine de Pisan and the Moral Defense of Women: Reading Beyond Gender

In the spring (2001) issue (Vol. 18, No. 1), you can read the following:

  • "Fabricated Laughter: Wit and Humor in Renaissance Music" by Hiroyuki Minamino
  • "Jesuit Patronage of the Spiritual Madrigal" by Katherine Powers, California State University, Fullerton
  • "From Ambarvalia to Harvest Home and Beyond: Herrick's Veiled Christianization of Tibullus in 'The Hock-Cart'" by Robert Keller, Ohio State University
  • Book review by Renzo Baldasso (University of Oklahoma) of Peter Machamer's The Cambridge Companion to Galileo.

In the fall (2000) special extra issue (Vol. 17, No. 3), you can read the following:

  • "O fair face": The Aesthetic of the Portrait Miniature in John Lyly's Campaspe" by Marguerite A. Tassi, University of Nebraska at Kearney
  • "An Echo Beyond the Mexique Bay: Andrew Marvell, Thomas Gage, and the Lord Fairfax" by Clinton Allen Brand, Southern Illinois University
  • "The Morality Play in Doctor Faustus: Faustus as Reprobate Man" by Lauren L Shimman, The Ohio State University
  • "Sigismondo Coccapani's 'The Ecstasy of Saint Francis': A Reflection of the Aesthetic Doctrine of the Counter Reformation" by Herbert C. Turrentine, Emeritus, Southern Methodist University
  • Book review by Amy Nelson Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) of Brad S. Gregory's Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe.
  • Book review by Susan Treacy (Franciscan University of Steubenville) of Andrew Ashbee's William Lawes (1602-1645): Essays on His Life, Times and Work.

In the spring (2000) issue (Vol. 17, No. 2), you will find the following articles:

  • "Practical Reason and Action: The Teaching of Prudence Through Renaissance Emblem Books" by Lynette C. Black, University of Memphis
  • "An Invisible Notation: On the Invention of German Lute Tablature" by Hiroyuki Minamino, Mission Viejo, California
  • "'To Have and To Hold': King Learand the 1559 Book of Common Prayer" by Martha Ann Oberle, Frederick Community College
  • "'The Children of Venus': An Anonymous 16th-Century Venetian Engraving Printed by Gabriele Giolito" by Herbert Turrentine, emeritus, Southern Methodist University
  • Book review by Jane Andrews Aiken (Virginia Polytech Institute and University) on David Alan Brown's Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius

Previous Issues, Spring 1997 - Fall 1999