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Vol 20, No 1 (2018)
Table of Contents
Articles
| The Shaping of Wit in the Euphuistic Prose of John Lyly | |
| Yuval Kramer |
| Ovid’s Echo and Narcissus Myth in English Petrarchan Poetry | |
| Anthony Archdeacon |
| Strange food, paper | |
| Alexandra Halasz |
| Bengal as Shakespeare’s India and the Stolen Indian Boy: The Historical Dark Matter of A Midsummer Night’s Dream | |
| Imtiaz Habib |
| The Art of Memory Meets the Art of Government in Hamlet | |
| Katherine Elizabeth Blake |
| Decapitation, Pregnancy and the Tongue: The Body as Political Metaphor in Measure for Measure | |
| Anna Muenchrath |
| The Mirror and the Lover’s ‘I’ in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poet’s Individuation Process | |
| Charis Charalampous |
| Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle and the Menace of the Authoring Audience. | |
| Bill Angus |
| The Church as Intermediary between the Christian and the Divine in George Herbert’s Poetry: ‘God is more there, then thou’ | |
| Christopher de Warrenne Waller |
| 'They would not for a world transgresse the bounds of Civility': The 'Otherness' of Early Modern Female Vices and Virtues Reassessed | |
| Joanna Ludwikowska |
| John Wilson's Music for Richard Brome's The Northern Lass | |
| Keith Green |
| 'High Delights that Satisfy all Appetites': Thomas Traherne and Gender | |
| Jean E Graham |
Notes
| Digital Resources for Performance History: Online Newspaper Archives and Modern Productions of Gorboduc | |
| Jessica L. Winston |
Book Reviews
| Simone Chess, Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (London: Routledge, 2016) | |
| Vanessa Wright |
| Katherine Eggert, Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) | |
| Tom Rutter |
Theatre Reviews
| Review of the American Shakespeare Center's productions of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | PDF Image 1 Image 2 |
| Justin B. Hopkins |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Presented by Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York, June 28-September 2, 2018 | |
| Lisa Hopkins |
Books received
| Books received | |
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