EMLS is pleased to announce the fourth winner of the annual Literature Online Prize. The 2008 Prize goes to Bradley D. Ryner for his article "Commodity Fetishism in Richard Brome’s A Mad Couple Well Matched and its Sources". Early Modern Literary Studies 13.3 (January, 2008) 4.1-26<URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/13-3/rynecomm.htm>.
The Literature Online Prize is sponsored by Chadwyck-Healey, the specialist humanities imprint of ProQuest Information and Learning and publishers of Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk; http://lion.chadwyck.com). The prize, to the value of £150, is awarded annually for the best article published in EMLS in the preceding twelve months, in the judgement of a committee appointed by the Editor and including a representative from Literature Online. Previous winners have been:
2007: Helga Duncan, "'Headdie Ryots' as Reformations: Marlowe's Libertine Poetics". Early Modern Literary Studies 12.2 (September, 2006) 2.1-38 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/12-2/duncmarl.htm>.
2006: Alexandra G. Bennett, for her article, "'Now let my language speake': The Authorship, Rewriting, and Audience(s) of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley". Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 (September, 2005) 3.1-13 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/11-2/benncav2.htm>.
2005: LaRue Love Sloan, for her article, "'Caparisoned like the horse': Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew", Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) 1.1-24 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/10-2/sloacapa.htm>.