invites reviews of recent scholarly works -- critical editions, commentaries, and theoretical, historical, literary, or interdisciplinary criticism which centres on sixteenth- or seventeenth-century English or related literary culture. We also encourage reports of all resources which are relevant to literary studies of the period, including those available exclusively in the electronic medium.
Our aim is to publish reviews of a consistently high standard, which are both engaging and critically fair, written by a broad range of people at different stages of their academic careers with varied disciplinary backgrounds.
Requests to Review
Requests to review books listed below, or proposals for reviews of other new titles, together with a brief description of reviewers' academic qualifications, publications or research interests should be sent to James Doelman, the Associate Editor (Reviews) at doelmanj@mcmaster.ca.
Submission of Materials for Review
Materials for review may be sent to the Editor, Lisa Hopkins, at School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Please note that all unsolicited materials sent to EMLS for the purposes of review must be plainly marked with the word "Donation" on the front of the mailing cover.
Books Received for Review as of March 1999:
Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Amelang, James S. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.
Aughterson, Kate. The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. London: Routledge, 1998.
Battigelli, Anna. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: Kentucky UP, 1998.
Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
Bell, Rudolph M. How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
Berger, Thomas L., William C. Bradford, and Sidney L. Sondergard. An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Corthell, Ronald. Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
Cox, John D., and David Scott Kastan, eds. A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
Daileader, Celia R. Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
De Grazia, Margreta, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass, eds. Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Dillon, Janette. Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Dobranski, Stephen B., and John P. Rumrich. Milton and Heresy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Fowler, Elizabeth and Roland Greene, eds. The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). The Worth of Women. Ed. Virginia Cox. Trans. Virginia Cox. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
Forker, Charles R., ed. Richard II: The Critical Tradition. London: Athlone P, 1998.
Garber, Marjorie. Coming of Age in Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 1997.
Garin, Eugenio, ed. Renaissance Characters. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
Guthke, Karl S. The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Halpern, Richard. Shakespeare Among the Moderns. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Herman, Peter C. Squitter-wits and Muse-haters. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.
Hillman, Richard. Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Hodgdon, Barbara. The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998.
Hoeveler, Diane Long. Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1998.
Innes, Paul. Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Kiernan, Pauline. Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Krier, Theresa M. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.
Leinwand, Theodore B. Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Lieb, Michael. The Sinews of Ulysses: Form and Convention in Milton’s Works. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1989.
Lim, Walter H. The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Locke, Anne. Meditations of a Penitent Sinner. Ed. Kel Morin. Waterloo, Ont.: North Waterloo Academic Press, 1998.
Loomba, Ania, and Martin Orkin, eds. Post-Colonial Shakespeares. London: Routledge, 1998.
Lucking, David. Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare’s Drama of Language. Lecce: Edizioni Milella, 1997.
MacLean, Gerald, Donna Landry, Joseph P. Ward, eds. The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Madelaine, Richard, ed. Shakespeare in Production: Antony and Cleopatra. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Maguire, Laurie E. and Thomas L. Berger. Textual Formations and Reformations. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Mallette, Richard. Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
Martin, Catherine Gimelli. The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention. Duke: Duke UP, 1998.
McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
McJannet, Linda. The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Minois, George. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Trans Lydia G. Cochrane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
.Nuttall, A.D. The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998.
Ogden, James, and Arthur H. Scouten, eds. Lear from Study to Stage: Essays in Criticism. Cranbury: Associated UP, 1997.
Platt, Peter G. Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
Potter, Lois, ed. Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Rambuss, Richard. Closet Devotions. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Reiss, Timothy. Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Rhodes, Neill, ed. English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, Politics. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1997.
Sanders, Eve Rachele. Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Sharpe, Kevin, and Steven N. Zwicker, eds. Refiguing Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.
Shifflett, Andrew. Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Shulman, James Lawrence. "The Pale Cast of Thought:" Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Shurgot, Michael W. Stages of Play: Shakespeare’s Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Smith, Hilda L. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Smith, Molly. Breaking Boundaries: politics and play in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto. The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Representation of King Lear and Madame Bovary. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Stanwood, Paul. Izaak Walton. New York: Twayne, 1998.
Stephens, Dorothy. The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Stewart, Alan. Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
Talvacchia, Bette. Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.
Traub, Valerie, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret. Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Walton Williams, George. Shakespeare’s Speech Headings. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Warner, William B. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.
Warren, Austin. Becoming What One Is. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
White, Martin. Renaissance Drama in Action. London: Routledge, 1998.
Forthcoming Reviews:
Barnes, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
Bishop, T.G. Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Burnett, Mark Thornton. Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Burns, Edward. Reading Rochester. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1996.
Cavendish, William. Dramatic Works by William Cavendish. Oxford: The Malone Society, 1996.
Cheney, Patrick. Marlowe’s Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.
Cox, John F. Much Ado About Nothing in Production. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
Demaray, John G. Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: The Tempest and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998.
Doerksen, Daniel. Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne and the English Church before Laud. Cranbury, N.J.: Bucknell UP, 1997.
Farago, Claire, ed. Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650. Yale: Yale UP, 1996.
Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
Gregerson, Linda. The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Grell, Ole Peter and Andrew Cunningham. Religio Medici: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Aldershot: Scolar P, 1996.
Hamilton, Donna B. and Richard Strier, eds. Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Henke, Robert. Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio. The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Holland, Peter. English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Honan, Park. Shakespeare: A Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.
Kamps, Ivo. Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Klein, Lisa M. The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Kronenfeld, Judy. King Lear and the Naked Truth. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Lewis, Cynthia. Particular Saints: Shakespeare’s Four Antonios, Their Contexts and Their Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Loxley, James. Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Marotti, Arthur. Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.
Marrapodi, Michele. The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Matchinske, Megan. Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Meagher, John C. Shakespeare’s Shakespeare: How the Plays were Made. New York: Continuum Books, 1997.
Mikalachki, Jodi. The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1998.
Moore, Lisa M. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
Pacheco, Anita. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. Harlow: Longman, 1998.
Parfenov, Alexandr, and Joseph G. Price, eds. Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Parker, Douglas, ed. A Proper Dyaloge betwene a Gentillman and an Husbandman. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
Pask, Kevin. The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Pong Linton, Joan. TheRomance of the New World: Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
Raymond, Joad. The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641-1649. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996.
Riddell, James A. and Stanley Stewart. Jonson’s Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1995.
Rubik, Margarete. Early Women Dramatists 1550-1800. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Shuger, Debora Kuller. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.
Sohmer, Steve. Shakespeare's Mystery Play: The Opening of the Globe Theatre, 1599. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.
Summers, Claude J. and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Representing Women in Renaissance England. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1997.
Tebeaux, Elizabeth. The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood, 1997.
Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. New Haven: Harvard UP, 1996.
Walker, Greg. Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith, and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII. Aldershot: Scolar P, 1996.
Walker, Julia M. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Walker, Julia M. Medusa’s Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Metamorphosis of the Female Self. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Williams, Gordon. Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution. Atlantic Highlands: Athlone P, 1996.
Wiseman, Susan. Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Worthen, W.B. Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Woudhuysen, Henry. Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
Wright, C.J., ed. Sir Robert Cotton as Collector. London: The British Library, 1997.
Yachnin, Paul. Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.
