RENAISSANCE forum

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An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 - Volume Two, Number Two - Autumn 1997

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• Articles

  • Steve Longstaffe, 'What is the English history play and why are they saying such terrible things about it?'

  • David Siar, 'Jean E. Howard's Postmodern Marxist Feminism and the Economic Last Instance.'

  • Anny Crunelle-Vanrigh, '"Too Much in the (Black) Sun": Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan View.'

• Reviews

  • Recent Editions of Plays by Ford, Kyd, Middleton, Tourneur and Middleton

    • Simon Barker. Ed. 1997. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. London: Routledge. 156pp. ISBN 0-415-04947-4. £10.99 / $17.95.
      David Bevington. Ed. 1996. The Spanish Tragedy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 143pp. ISBN 0-7190-4344-1. £5.99.

    • R.A. Foakes. Ed. 1996. The Revenger's Tragedy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 137pp. ISBN 0-7190-4375-1. £5.99.

    • Derek Roper. Ed. 1997. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 124pp. ISBN 0-7190-4359-X. £5-99.

    • John Russell Brown. Ed. 1997. The Duchess of Malfi. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 186pp. ISBN 0-7190-4357-3. £5.99.

    • John Russell Brown. Ed. 1996. The White Devil. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 168pp. ISBN 0-7190-4355-7. £5.99.

    • Michael Taylor. Ed. 1995. A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xxvi + 389pp. ISBN 0-19-282255-1. £6.99. Reviewed by Lisa Hopkins.

  • David Cressy. 1997. Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xvi + 641 pp. ISBN 0-19-820168-0. £25.00. Reviewed by J. A. Sharpe.

  • Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales. Eds. 1996. The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan. viii + 332 pp. ISBN 0-333-59745-1. £45.00 hb / ISBN 0-333-59746-X. £14.99 pb. Reviewed by Mark E. C. Perrott.

  • Sean Kelsey. 1997. Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth 1649-1653. Manchester: Manchester University Press. x + 254pp. ISBN 0-7910-5057-X. £29.95. Reviewed by J. C. Davis.

  • William Lamont. 1996. Puritanism and Historical Controversy. London: UCL Press. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 1-85728-285-X. £38.00 hb / ISBN 1-85728-286-8. £11.95 pb. Reviewed by Mark E. C. Perrott.

  • Diarmaid MacCulloch. 1996. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. xii + 692 pp. 44 illus. ISBN 0-300-06688-0. $35.00. Reviewed by Romauld I. Lakowski.

  • Julia Reinhard Lupton. 1996. Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press. xxxii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2643-4. £30 / $39.50. Reviewed by Jeffrey Powers-Beck.

  • David L. Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington. Eds. 1995. The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 288 pp. ISBN 0-521-44126-9. £37.50 / $54.95. Reviewed by Nick Cox.

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