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An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies

ISSN 1362-1149 – Volume Five Number Two – Winter 2001

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• Articles

  • Martin Bainton, '"Good Tricks of Youth": Renaissance Comedy, New Comedy and the Prodigal Son Paradigm'. (c. 50 kB).

  • Eugene Giddens, 'Honourable Men: Militancy and Masculinity in Julius Caesar'. (c. 51 kB).

  • Matthew Steggle, 'Brome, Covent Garden, and 1641'. (c. 40 kB).

• Reviews

  • Richard Burt. 1998. Unspeakable Shaxxxpeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 318 pp. ISBN 0-333-75327-5. £30. Reviewed by Rowland Wymer. (c. 7 kB).

  • James Doelman. 2000. King James I and the Religious Culture of England. Studies in Renaissance Literature. Vol. 4. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 184 pp. ISBN 0-85991-593-X. £40. Reviewed by Peter C. Herman. (c. 7 kB).

  • Alison Findlay and Stephanie Hodgson-Wright with Gweno Williams. 2000. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700. Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd. 228 pp. ISBN 0-582-31982-X. hbk. / ISBN 0-582-31983-8. £18.99 pbk. Reviewed by Kate Chedgzoy. (c. 5 kB).

  • John Lyly. 2000. 'Galatea' and 'Midas'. Eds. George K. Hunter and David Bevington. The Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 282 pp. ISBN 0-7190-3095-1. £40. Reviewed by Mike Pincombe. (c. 7 kB).

  • Masculinity

    • Bruce R. Smith. 2000. Shakespeare and Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. x + 182pp. ISBN 0-19-871188-3. £25 hbk / ISBN 0-19-871189-1. £12.99 pbk.

    • Andrew P. Williams. 1999. The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature: Viewing the Male. Westport: Greenwood Press. xv + 196pp. ISBN 0-313-30766-0. £48.95. Reviewed by Jennifer Richards. (c. 8 kB).

  • Thomas Rist. 1999. Shakespeare's Romances and the Politics of Counter-Reformation. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. xi + 251pp. ISBN 0-7734-8033-1. £49.99. Reviewed by Alizon Brunning. (c. 11 kB).

  • Alison Shell. 1999. Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 309 pp. ISBN 0-521-58090-0. £35. Reviewed by Peter Milward. (c. 10 kB).

  • Zdenek Stríbrný. 2000. Shakespeare in Eastern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 161 pp. ISBN 0-19-871165-4. £25 hbk. / ISBN 0-19-871164-6. £12.95 pbk. Reviewed by Boika Sokolova. (c. 8 kB).

  • Elizabeth Jane Weston. 2000. Collected Writings. Ed and trans. Donald Cheney and Brenda M. Hosington, with the assistance of D.K. Money. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 448 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4472-7. $80/£50. Reviewed by Alison Shell. (c. 7 kB).

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