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Vol 21, No 2 (2020)
Table of Contents
Articles
Bloody Fray and Juliet's Bleeding Body in Romeo and Juliet | |
Lauren Weindling |
Shakespeare's Musical Reformation: Sounds of Silence? | |
Florence Hazrat |
The Preservation of Masculinity: Private Honor in Conduct Manuals, Funeral Sermons and Child-rearing. | |
Erika D'Souza |
'Were I but a man as others are': Secrecy and Gender on the Renaissance Stage | |
Samantha Diane Dressel |
'French Amulets', Expelling Poisons, and Contagion in The Changeling | |
Catherine L Reedy |
Marvell’s Maps: Reading Empire through Microcosm at Nun Appleton | |
Daniel Normandin |
Samson's Now and I: Their Development in Time | |
Ayelet Langer |
The Mask of Shakespeare’s ‘Dark Lady’: Fictional Representations of Aemilia Lanyer in the Twenty-First Century Historical Novel | |
Emily Buffey |
Book Reviews
Patrick Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019) | |
Domenico Lovascio |
A Poetry Precise and Free: Selected Madrigals of Guarini, ed. by Nicholas R. Jones (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018) | |
Kevin De Ornellas |
Sandra Clark, Shakespeare and Domestic Life: A Dictionary (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) | |
Kevin De Ornellas |
The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon in England, ed. by Paul Botley and Máté Vince, 4 vols (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 2018) | |
Thomas M. Vozar |
Sophie Chiari, Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern 'Fated Sky' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019) | |
Tom Rutter |
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life (London: Viking, 2018) | |
Sean Lawrence |
Suparna Roychoudhury, Phantasmatic Shakespeare (New York: Cornell University Press, 2018) | |
Anna Graham |
Theatre Reviews
Books received
Books Received: Current Status | |

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