Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews
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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 2001:

• Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Alexander, Catherine M.S., and Stanley Wells, eds. Shakespeare and Race. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Amelang, James S. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.
• 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.
• Boenig, Robert. The Mystical Gesture: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E. Giles. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
• 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.
• Borris, Kenneth. Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Bowers, Rick, ed. Thomas Phaer and the Boke of Chyldren (1544). Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1999.
• Brown, Richard Danson. "The New Poet": Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1999.
• Brown, Richard Danson and David Johnson, eds. A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
• Brownless, Marina S. The Cultural Labyrinth of Maria de Zayas. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000.
• De Somogyi, Nick. Shakespeare's Theatre of War. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
• Edwards, Karen L. Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost.. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Eggert, Katherine. Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000.
• Elton, W. R. Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and the Inns of Court Revels. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
• Esche, Edward J. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
• Falco, Raphael. Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.
• Fendt, Gene. Is Hamlet a Religious Drama?: An Essay on a Question in Kierkegaard. Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 1998.
• Findlay, Alison, and Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, with Gweno Williams. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
• 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.
• Fitzpatrick, Joan. Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish and Gender by Spenser and his Contemporaries. Lanham, MD: UP of America.
• 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.
• Fowler, Constance Aston. The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000.
• Fuller, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Sonnets. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
• Garber, Marjorie. Coming of Age in Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Garin, Eugenio, ed. Renaissance Characters. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Gascoigne, George. A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres. Ed. George Pigman III. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000.
• Gay, David, James Randall and Arlette Zinck, eds. Awakening Worlds: John Bunyan and the Language of Community. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000.
• Grantley, Darryll. Wit's Pilgrimage: Drama and the Social Impact of Education in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
• Grantley, Darryll, and Nina Taunton, eds. The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
• Greer, Margaret Rich. Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men. Pennsylvania State UP, 2000.
• Grove, Laurence, and Daniel Russell. The French Emblem: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2000.
• Gurr, Andrew, ed. The First Quarto of King Henry V. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Hale, John K. The Shakespeare of the Comedies. 2nd ed. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1997.
• Hattaway, Michael, ed. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
• 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 UP, 2000.
• Honigmann, E.A.J. Myriad-Minded Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
• Hutchinson, Lucy. Order and Disorder. Ed. David Norbrook. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
• Innes, Paul. Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Jackson, Russell. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Jones, Ann Rosalind, and Peter Stallybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• 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.
• King, Andrew. The Faerie Queene and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000.
• King, John N. Milton and Religious Controversy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• King, Kathryn. Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000.
• Kolbrener, William. Milton's Warring Angels. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• 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.
• Matz, Robert. Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• McJannet, Linda. The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
• Miola, Robert S., ed. Every Man in His Humour. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000.
• Morrison, Jennifer Klein, and Matthew Greenfield, eds. Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
• Neill, Michael. Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
• 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.
• O'Brien, John, and Malcolm Quainton, eds. Distant Voices Still Heard: Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2000.
• Paige, Nicholas D. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001.
• Rhodes, Neil. 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.
• 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.
• Tasso, Torquato. Jerusalem Delivered. Ed. and trans. Anthony M. Esolen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.
• Thornton, Leslie, ed. All is But Fortune. Washington: U of Washington P, 2000.
• 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.
• Wells, Robin Headlam. Shakespeare on Masculinity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Weston, Elizabeth Jane. Collected Writings. Ed. and trans. Donald Cheney and Brenda M. Hosington. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000.
• White, Martin. Renaissance Drama in Action. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Wilcher, Robert. The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Wilson, Luke. Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000.

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.
• Allman, Eileen. Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue. London: Associated UP, 1999.
• Amussen, Susan D., and Adele Seeff. Attending to Early Modern Women. Newark, U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bly, Mary. Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
• Brooks, Douglas A. From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000..
• Brown-Grant, Rosalind. Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Budra, Paul. A Mirror for Magistrates and the De Casibus Tradition. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000.
• Cavendish, William. Dramatic Works by William Cavendish. Oxford: The Malone Society, 1996.
• 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.
• Dobranski, Stephen B., and John P. Rumrich. Milton and Heresy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Doerksen, Daniel. Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne and the English Church before Laud. Cranbury, N.J.: Bucknell UP, 1997.
• Enterline, Lynn. The Rhetoric of the Body: From Ovid to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Farago, Claire, ed. Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650 Yale: Yale UP, 1996.
• Hackett, Helen. Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Hanafi, Zakiya. The Monster in the Machine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.
• 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.
• 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.
• Howard, Jean. Marxist Shakespeares. London: Routledge, 2000.
• 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.
• Leinwand, Theodore B. Theatre, Finace and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Lewalski, Barbara K. The Life of John Milton. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Potter, Lois, ed. Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Reiss, Timothy. Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Rhodes, Neil, and Jonathan Sawday, eds. The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Snyder, Susan. Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton. 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.
• Weimann, Robert. Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Williams, Andrew P. The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature: Viewing the Male. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999.
• 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.
• Wroth, Mary. The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts, Suzanne Gosset, and Janel Mueller. MRTS (Suny Binghampton), 1999.
• Yachnin, Paul. Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.

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