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An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 - Volume Two, Number One, Spring 1997

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• Articles

  • Richard Danson Brown, 'A "goodlie bridge" between the Old and the New: the transformation of complaint in Spenser's The Ruines of Time.'

  • David Lucking, 'Bringing Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About Nothing'.

  • Kevin Sharpe, '"Black Tom Tyrant"? Or a Man of Many Hues?: The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford". A Review Article: J.F. Merritt. Ed. 1996. The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 1621-41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiv + 293 pp. ISBN 052160411.

• Reviews

  • Lisa Jardine. 1996. Reading Shakespeare Historically. London and New York: Routledge. viii+207 pp. ISBN 0-415-13489-7. Reviewed by Martin Butler.

  • Ivo Kamps. Ed. 1995. Materialist Shakespeare: A History. London and New York: Verso. ix + 342 pp. ISBN 0-86091-463-1. £39.95. Reviewed by David Siar.

  • Keele University Press Ryburn Renaissance Texts and Studies series
    

    • Kate Chedgzoy, Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill. Eds. 1996. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Keele: Keele University Press. 208 pp. ISBN 1-85331-108-1. £35.00.

    • Lady Mary Wroth. 1996. Poems: A Modernized Edition. Edited by R.E. Pritchard. Keele: Keele University Press. 224 pp. ISBN 1-85331-169-3. £25.00.

    • Elizabeth Cary. 1996. The Tragedy of Mariam the Fair Queen of Jewry. Edited by Stephanie Wright. Keele: Keele University Press. 128 pp. ISBN 1-85331-104-9. £25.00 hb. £10.95 pb.

    • Richard Dutton. Ed. 1996. Jacobean Civic Pageants. Keele: Keele University Press. 189 pp. ISBN 1-85331-107. £35.00. Reviewed by Lisa Hopkins.

  • David Lindley. 1996 [1993]. The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James. London and New York: Routledge. 227 pp. 13 illus. ISBN 0-415-14424-8. £13.99 pb. Reviewed by Julie Sanders.

  • Thomas H. Luxon. 1995. Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Renaissance Crisis in Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 260 pp. ISBN 0-226-49785-2. $28.00. Reviewed by Ceri Sullivan.

  • John Morrill. Ed. 1996. The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. xv + 487 pp. ISBN 0-19-820325-X. £25.00. Reviewed by Mike Braddick.

  • William W. E Slights. Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press. ix + 241pp. ISBN 0-8020-0462-8. £32.50 / $56.00. Reviewed by Richard Dutton.

  • Penry Williams. 1995. The Later Tudors. England 1547-1603. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press. xxi + 606 pp 16 plates, 24 maps, tables, genealogies. ISBN 0-19-822820-1. £25.00 / US $39.95. Reviewed by Norman Jones.

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