RENAISSANCE forum

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An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 - Volume Three, Number Two - 1998

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Contents

• Articles

  • Tristan Marshall, Empire State Building: Finding the Problem in the British Problem: A Review Essay.

  • Anja I. Müller, Bussy D'Ambois, the Duel and the Dynamic of Performance.

  • Thomas Worden, The Rhetoric of Place in Ben Jonson's 'Chorographical' Entertainments and Masques.

• Reviews

  • Janette Dillon. 1998. Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 272 pp. ISBN 0-521-59334-4. £40/$59.95. Reviewed by Mike Pincombe.

  • Government and Reformation

    • John Guy. Ed. 1997. The Tudor Monarchy. London: Arnold. xi + 391 pp. ISBN 0-340-65219-5. £14.99.

    • Peter Marshall. Ed. 1997. The Impact of the English Reformation 1500-1640. London: Arnold. xi + 344 pp. £14.99. Reviewed by Thomas F. Mayer.

  • Terence Hawkes. Ed. 1996. Alternative Shakespeares Volume 2. London and New York: Routledge. xiii + 294pp. ISBN 0-415-15780-3. £40.00 hb / ISBN 0-415-13486-2. £10.99 pb. Reviewed by Mark Dooley.

  • Lisa Hopkins. 1998. The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands. Basingstoke: Macmillan / New York: St. Martin's Press. 219pp. ISBN 0-312-17748-8. £42.50. Reviewed by Anita Pacheco.

  • Thomas More

    • Anthony S.G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller. Eds. 1997. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things. The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Vol. 1. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. xiii + 446pp. ISBN 0-300-06231-1. £50-00 / $65.00.

    • Gerard B. Wegemer. 1996. Thomas More on Statesmanship. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. viii + 262pp. ISBN 0-8132-0836-X. $49.95. Reviewed by Romuald I. Lakowski.

  • Curtis Perry. 1997. The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 281 pp. ISBN 0-521-57406-4. £35/$59.95. Reviewed by Stephen O'Neill.

  • Spenser, Shakespeare and Ireland

    • Andrew Hadfield. 1997. Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruite and Salvage Soyl. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 227 pp. ISBN 0-19-818345-3. £35.

    • Christopher Highley. 1997. Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 246 pp. 6 illus. ISBN 0-521-58199-0. £37.50/$59.95. Reviewed by Tracey Hill.

  • William Shakespeare. 1998. The First Quarto of Hamlet. The New Cambridge Shakespeare edn, edited by Kathleen O. Irace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 127pp. ISBN 0-521-41819-4. £32.50/$49.95. Reviewed by Charles Cathcart.

  • Harold Weber. 1996. Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship under Charles II. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. x + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8131-1929-4. $39.95. Reviewed by Joad Raymond.

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