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<i>Renaissance Papers</i> collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2014 volume opens and closes with essays on historically based explorations of identity: the first onthe circle of Jane Scroop in Skelton's <i>Philip Sparrow</i>, and the last on dogs and horses as symbols of national identity in early modern England. The heart of this year's journal is English drama, especially Jonson and Marlowe: there are essays on Puritan logic in Jonson's <i>Bartholomew Fair</i>; grotesque sex in Jonson's <i>Volpone</i>; the role of anti-Catholicism in the creation of Marlowe's <i>Dr. Faustus</i>; and the relationship between puppetry and the Faust legend. Marlowe and Jonson also surface in two reconsiderations of their non-dramatic works; first an essay on Ovidian resonances in Marlowe's <i>Hero and Leander</i>, and second a reflection on Spenserian echoesin Jonson's <i>Epode.</i> The next essay shifts to the poetics of religious literature, arguing for clothing as an important metaphor for renewal in Herbert's <i>The Temple</i>, and the penultimate essay addresses imaginative resources in the Martin Marprelate pamphlets.<br><br> Contributors: William Coulter, Philip Goldfarb, Chris Hill, Joanna Kucinski, Pamela Macfie, Sara Mayo, Barry Shelton, Emily Stockard, Lisa Ulevich, Emma Annette Wilson.<br><br>The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of the University of Georgia.