RENAISSANCE forum

An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 – Volume Seven – Winter 2004

Special Double Issue

Containing papers derived from
'1603: The Historical and Cultural Consequences of the Accession of James I',
a conference held at the University of Hull, 27-28 June 2003

Articles
- Sandra Bell, ' "No Scot, No English Now": Literary and Cultural Responses to James VI and I's Policies on Union'.
- Martyn Bennett, 'James VI and I and the Fringes of the Enlarged Kingdom'.
- Diana Newton, 'The Impact of James I's Accession on the North-East of England'.
- Michael J. Redmond, ' "Low Comedy" and Political Cynicism: Parodies of the Jacobean Disguised-Duke Play'.
- Frauke Reitemeier, ' "There are verie few Englishmen that know, bicause we want the books": On English Descriptions of Scotland Before and After 1603'.
- Jane Rickard, 'From Scotland to England: The Poetic Strategies of James VI and I'.
Review Article
- Terence Clifford-Amos, 'Spenser and Ireland'.
Reviews
- Lisa Hopkins. 2002. Writing Renaissance Queens: Texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press. Reviewed by Amanda Capern.
- Philip C. Kolin. Ed. 2002. Othello: New Critical Essays. New York and London: Routledge. Reviewed by M.W Rowe.
- John Lee. 2000. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and the Controversies of Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Martin Bainton.
- John Lyly. 2003. 'Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated Modern-Spelling Edition. Ed. Leah Scragg. The Revels Plays Companion Library. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Reviewed by Mike Pincombe.
- John Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon. Eds. 2002. New Critical Essays: The Merchant of Venice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Rebecca Nesvet.
- Chris Meads. 2001. Banquets Set Forth. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. Reviewed by Karen Britland.
- Mary Beth Rose. 2002. Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Reviewed by Eugene Giddens.
- James Simpson. 2002. Reform and Cultural Revolution. The Oxford English Literary History. Vol. 2: 1350-1547. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Lesley Coote.
- Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt. Eds. 2001. Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints. Reviewed by Carol Blessing.
- Ceri Sullivan. 2002. The Rhetoric of Credit: Merchants in Early Modern Writing. London: Associated University Presses. Reviewed by Phil Withington.
- Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess and Rowland Wymer. Eds. 2000. Neo-Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. Reviewed by Nigel Smith.
- Daniel Woolf. 2003. The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500-1730. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- James A. Knapp. 2003. Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England: The Representation of History in Printed Books. Aldershot: Ashgate. Reviewed by Philip Schwyzer.

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RENAISSANCE forum

An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 – Volume Seven – Winter 2004

Special Double Issue

Containing papers derived from'1603: The Historical and Cultural Consequences of the Accession of James I',a conference held at the University of Hull, 27-28 June 2003

Contents

Containing papers derived from
'1603: The Historical and Cultural Consequences of the Accession of James I',
a conference held at the University of Hull, 27-28 June 2003