RENAISSANCE forum

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An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 - Volume Four, Number One - 1999

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Contents

• Articles

  • Simon Brittan, 'Skelton's "Speke Parott": Language, Madness and the Role of the Court Poet.'

  • Rosalind Davies, '"The Great Day of Mart": Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603.'

  • Romuald Ian Lakowski, 'Geography and the More Circle: John Rastell, Thomas More and the "New World".'

• Reviews

  • Peter Davidson and Adriaan van der Weel. Eds. 1996. A Selection from the Poems of Sir Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 228 pp. ISBN 90-5356-180-3. DFl.65. Reviewed by H.R. Woudhuysen.

  • Domestic Dramas

    • Mark Thornton Burnett. 1997. Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture. London: Macmillan. xii + 225 pp. ISBN 0333694570. hb.
    • Viviana Comensoli. 1996. 'Household Business': Domestic Plays of Early Modern England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. x + 238 pp. ISBN 0802007333228. hb. Reviewed by Tristan Marshall.

  • Paulina Kewes. 1998. Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710. Oxford: Clarendon Press. xiv + 304pp. ISBN 0-19-818468-9. £35. Reviewed by Sonia Massai.

  • James Loxley. 1997. Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars: The Drawn Sword. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 251pp. ISBN 0-333-66075-7. £45. Reviewed by Jerome de Groot.

  • Diane Kelsey McColley. 1997. Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 311 pp. ISBN 0-521-59363-8. £40/$59.95. Reviewed by Ceri Sullivan.

  • Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean. 1998. The Queen's Men and their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 253 pp. ISBN 0-521-59427-8. £40. Reviewed by Peter Thomson.

  • Michael Neill. 1997. Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 404pp. ISBN 0-19-818386-0. £45. Reviewed by Ralph Houlbrooke.

  • Shakespeare Editions

    • William Shakespeare. 1998. King Edward III. 219pp. ISBN 0-521-43422-X. £32.50/$49.95 hb. ISBN 0-521-59673-4. £6.95/$12.95 pb.

    • William Shakespeare. 1998. Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Cambridge University Press. 213pp. ISBN 0-521-22907-3. £32.50/$49.95 hb. ISBN 0-521-29710-9. £6.50/$11.95 pb. Reviewed by Emma Smith.

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