Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Topics addressed by a number of distinguished scholars in this latest volume include the political workings of Elizabeth I’s pastoral regime, Donne’s defense of the Jacobean religious settlement, collaborative pedagogy for term-teaching Shakespeare to undergraduates, Renaissance lyric poetics, Robert Herrick’s verse, amd Margaret Cavendish’s play with Shakespearian dramatic theme and technique. TREVOR HOWARD-HILL is C. Wallace Martin Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where Professor PHILIP ROLLINSON also teaches.Contributors: ANNE D. HALL, WAYNE ERICKSON, JON A. QUITSLUND, NANDRA PERRY, A.E.B. COLDIRON, ELENA LEVY-NAVARRO, HEATHER A. HIRSCHFELD, A. LEIGH DeNEEF, ROBERT W. HALLI Jr, SUSAN C. STAUB, JEANNE ADDISON ROBERTS