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Vol 18, No 1 & 2 (2015)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Faces and Figures of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy in Tamburlaine Part 1 | |
| Vanessa Ivette Corredera |
| Agency and Ethics in The Spanish Tragedy | |
| Timothy Rosendale |
| ‘The Truth Should Live from Age to Age’: Child Ciphers in Richard III and Elizabethan Civic Pageantry | |
| Jonathan E. Lux |
| Assembling Radigund and Artegall: Gender Identities in Spenser’s Faerie Queene | |
| John Henry Adams |
| The Complexity of Dance in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Claire Gwendoline Hansen |
| 'Noble being Base': Heads, Coins and Rebellion in The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (c. 1602) | |
| Jenny Emma Sager |
| Viewing the Changing 'shape or pourtraicture of Britain' in William Camden's Britannia, 1586-1610 | |
| Stuart Morrison |
| Early Modern Almanacs and The Witch of Edmonton | |
| Katherine Walker |
| Clothes Make the Ape: The Satirical Animal in Rochester's Poetry | |
| Peter DeGabriele |
| Shakespeare and Film: A Bibliographic Index (from Film to Book) | |
| Jordi Sala-Lleal |
Book Reviews
| Marta Straznicky, ed., Shakespeare's Stationers: Studies in Cultural Bibliography (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) | |
| Tom Rooney |
| Tiffany Jo Werth, The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) | |
| Gerd Bayer |
| Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, eds, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) | |
| Geoff Ridden |
| Joseph A. Dane, What is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed Books' (Notre Dame, IN.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) | |
| Christopher Ivic |
| Gary A. Schmidt, Renaissance Hybrids: Culture and Genre in Early Modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013) | |
| Gerd Bayer |
| Marjorie Rubright, Doppelganger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) | |
| Carol Mejia LaPerle |
| Alison V. Scott, Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015) | |
| Domenico Lovascio |
| Claudia Goldstein, Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party (Farnham: Asgate, 2013) | |
| James Fitzmaurice |
Theatre Reviews
| Tamburlaine I and II presented by the Theater for a New Audience, November 1, 2014 | |
| Andie Silva |
| The Massacre at Paris, presented by The Dolphin’s Back at the Rose Playhouse, Bankside, October 2014 | |
| Steve Robert Orman |
| Arden of Faversham, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford on Avon, June to October, 2014 | |
| Neil Forsyth |
| The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Richard III, presented by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, February-November 2014 | |
| Geoff Ridden |
| Richard III (Rickard III), presented by the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, 29 May 2014 | |
| Anna Swärdh |
| King Lear, presented by Shakespeare’s Globe at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, Washington, D.C., September 5 - 21, 2014 | |
| Noel Sloboda |
| The Adventures of Pericles presented by the Stratford Festival at the Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, 19 June 2015 | |
| Edel Semple |
| The Alchemist, presented by the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Madison, New Jersey. August 6-31, 2014 | |
| Ameer Sohrawardy |
| ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore presented by Shakespeare’s Globe at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, November 2014 | |
| Kibrina Davey |
| The Unnatural Tragedy by Margaret Cavendish, presented by the British American Drama Academy at Ovalhouse, London, 10 December 2014 (dress rehearsal) | |
| James Fitzmaurice |
Books received
| Books Received | |
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