Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews
- Reviewing Information | Books Received for Review | Forthcoming Reviews -

Reviewing Information

EMLS 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 Lisa Hopkins, the Associate Editor (Reviews), at L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, UK, S10 2BP.

Submission of Materials for Review

Materials for review may be sent to Lisa Hopkins, the Associate Editor (Reviews), at the above address. 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 January 2000:

• Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Allman, Eileen. Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue. London: Associated UP, 1999.
• Amelang, James S. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.
• Amussen, Susan D., and Adele Seeff. Attending to Early Modern Women. Newark, U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Baker, David. Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
• Bawcutt, Patricia, Ed. The Poems of William Dunbar (2 vols). Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999.
• Bell, Rudolph M. How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
• Boesky, Amy and Mary Thomas Crane, eds. Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000.
• Bowers, Rick, ed. Thomas Phaer and the Boke of Chyldren (1544). Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1999.
• Brooks, Douglas A. From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Brown, Richard Danson. "The New Poet": Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1999.
• Dobranski, Stephen B., and John P. Rumrich. Milton and Heresy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Edwards, Karen L. Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost.. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• Fendt, Gene. Is Hamlet a Religious Drama?: An Essay on a Question in Kierkegaard. Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 1998.
• Finucci, Valeria, ed. Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1999.
• Fisk, Deborah Payne, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). The Worth of Women. Ed. and 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.
• Gay, David, James Randall and Arlette Zinck, eds. Awakening Worlds: John Bunyan and the Language of Community. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000.
• Garin, Eugenio, ed. Renaissance Characters. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Hale, John K. The Shakespeare of the Comedies. 2nd ed. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1997.
• Herman, Peter C. Squitter-wits and Muse-haters. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.
• Herman, Peter C., ed. Opening the Borders: Inclusivity in Early Modern Studies. Essays in Honor of James V. Mirollo. Newark and London: U of Delaware P, Associated UP, 1999.
• Hill, John M. and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphone: Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne. London: Associated University Press, 2000.
• Hillman, Richard. Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Honigmann, E.A.J. Myriad-Minded Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
• Innes, Paul. Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Kendall, Gillian Murray, ed.. Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays. AURP, 1998.
• Kennedy, Judith M. and Richard F. A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Critical Tradition. London: Athlone P, 1999.
• Kerrigan, William. Shakespeare's Promises. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1888.
• Kiernan, Pauline. Shakespeare's Theory of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Kolbrener, William. Milton's Warring Angels. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Leinwand, Theodore B. Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Madelaine, Richard, ed. Shakespeare in Production: Antony and Cleopatra. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 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.
• McJannet, Linda. The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
• Murphy, Andrew. But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism and Renaissance Literature. Kentucky: U of Kentucky P, 1999.
• Nims, John Frederick, ed. Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567. With an essay on 'Shakespeare's Ovid' by Jonathan Bate. Philadelphia: Paul Dry, 2000.
• Peele, George. King Edward the First and David and Bethsabe. Ed. George K. Dreher. Iron Horse Free P, 1999.
• Platt, Peter G. ed. Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
• Potter, Lois, ed. Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Rhodes, Neill, ed. English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, Politics. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1997.
• Rumrich, John. Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpration. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Sanders, Eve Rachele. Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Sharp, Jane. The Midwives Book or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered. Ed. Elaine Hobby. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
• 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, Molly. Breaking Boundaries: politics and play in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
• Snyder, Susan. Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Sokol, B.J. and Mary Sokol. Shakespeare's Legal Language. London: Athlone Press, 2000.
• 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, Stanley. "Renaissance" Talk. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1997.
• 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.
• Warnicke, Retha M. The Marrying of Anne of Cleves. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Warren, Austin. Becoming What One Is. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• White, Martin. Renaissance Drama in Action. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Williams, Andrew P., ed. The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature: Viewing the Male. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999.

Forthcoming Reviews:

• Adams, Alison, Stephen Rawles and Alison Saunders. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books. Geneva: Droz, 1999.
• Albanese, Denise. New Science, New World. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
• Amussen, Susan D., and Adele Seeff. Attending to Early Modern Women. Newark, U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Baker, David. Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
• Barbour, Reid. English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.
• Barnes, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• Battigelli, Anna. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: Kentucky UP, 1998.
• Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation. New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Bishop, T.G. Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Brown-Grant, Rosalind. Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Burt, Richard. Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares. New York: St Martin's P, 1998.
• Cavendish, Margaret. The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• Cavendish, Margaret. Sociable Letters. Ed. James Fitzmaurice. New York: Garland, 1997.
• Cavendish, William. Dramatic Works by William Cavendish. Oxford: The Malone Society, 1996.
• Cox, John F. Much Ado About Nothing in Production. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Cox, John D., and David Scott Kastan, eds. A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia 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.
• Dillon, Janette. Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Dillon, Janette. Theatre, Court and City 1595-1610. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• 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.
• Findlay, Alison. A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
• 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. Hamilton, Donna B. and Richard Strier, eds. Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Harraway, Clare. Re-citing Marlowe: Approaches to the Drama. Ashgate: 2000.
• Hellinga, Lotte and J. B. Trapp, Eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume III: 1400-1557. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Henke, Robert. Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Hodgdon, Barbara. The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998.
• Honan, Park. Shakespeare: A Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.
• Kamps, Ivo. Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Kelly, Kathleen Coyne and Marina Leslie, eds. Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
• Klein, Lisa M. The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Krier, Theresa M. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.
• Kronenfeld, Judy. King Lear and the Naked Truth. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
• Lock, Anne Vaughan. The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock. Ed. Susan M. Felch. Tempe, AZ: Renaissance English Text Society / Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1999.
• Locke, Anne. Meditations of a Penitent Sinner. Ed. Kel Morin. Waterloo, Ont.: North Waterloo Academic 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.
• Loveridge, Mark. A History of Augustan Fable. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Luborsky, Ruth Samson, and Elizabeth Morely Ingram. A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603. Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1998.
• Maguire, Laurie E. and Thomas L. Berger. Textual Formations and Reformations. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Malcolmson, Cristina. Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Marrapodi, Michele. The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Matar, Nabil. Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. New York: Columbia UP, 1999.
• McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen's Men and Their Plays. 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.
• Minois, George. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Trans Lydia G. Cochrane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• Moore, Lisa M. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
• Murray, Jacqueline, and Konrad Eisenbichler. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
• Norton, Glyn P., ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume III: The Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge 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.
• Parfenov, Alexandr, and Joseph G. Price, eds. Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Parker, Kenneth, ed. Early Modern Tales of Orient. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Pinciss, Gerald M. Forbidden Matter: Religion in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. London: Associated UP, 2000.
• Platt, Peter G. Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
• Reiss, Timothy. Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997
• Schoenfeldt, Michael C. Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert and Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Sessions, W.A. Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
• Shakespeare, William. Edward III and The First Quarto of Hamlet. 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.
• 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.
• Vitkus, Daniel J. ed. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
• 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.
• Williams, George Walton. Shakespeare's Speech Headings. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Wiseman, Susan. Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Woudhuysen, Henry. Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
• Yachnin, Paul. Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.

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