Recently added articles from Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England:
"A fine and private place": chapman's theatrical widow.
Jan 01, 2009; Hodgson, Elizabeth ... I. MARVELL underestimates the amorous imagination when he says that "the grave's a fine and private place, / But none ... do there embrace." In Bartholomew Fair Quarlous argues almost the opposite, that suitors must "visit [a widow] as thou wouldst doe a Tombe, with a Torch ... ...
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Teague, Frances ... Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, by Farah Karim-Cooper. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. x + 221, 17 ill. Hardback [pounds sterling] 50.00. From Farah Karim-Cooper's study of cosmetics in the early modern period, one learns a vast amount about ...
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Love, Genevieve ... Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England, by Gina Bloom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 277. Cloth: $59.95. Gina Bloom's Voice in Motion takes the movement of the voice--"from the speaker's body, through the air, and to ...
Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Gossett, Suzanne ... Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria, by Karen Britland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 292. Cloth $96.00. Karen Britland's Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria is an admirable work, revisionist and yet respectful of previous scholarship, ...
Women on Stage in Stuart Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Raber, Karen ... Women on Stage in Stuart Drama, by Sophie Tomlinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2005. Pp. xii + 308. Cloth $96.00. For so many years, scholars of English Renaissance drama accepted the proposition that no women performed on stage until the Restoration and when they ...
Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Bly, Mary ... Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory, by Lucy Munro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 267 + xiii. Cloth $96.00. I just finished re-reading every bit of scholarship about boy theater companies that my graduate assistant could rootle out of ...
The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Raylor, Timothy ... The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravel-hofer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 318 + 3 plates + 23 figures. Cloth $125.00. The early Stuart masque was a multimedia spectacle: a rich and complex blend of poetry, music, scenery, ...
Shakespeare in Parts.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Aaron, Melissa ... Shakespeare in Parts, by Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 545. Hardback $45.00. Shakespeare in Parts, which is focused on the "part" or separate written text for the individual actor, sets itself a very ambitious task: part theater ...
Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Knutson, Roslyn L. ... Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama, edited by Elza C. Tiner. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii + 238. Cloth $75.00. At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock library, the REED volumes stand on their shelves in an unbroken ...
Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Biberman, Matthew ... Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage, by Michelle Ephraim. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 179. Cloth, $99.95. In 1996, James Shapiro wrote that literary critics of the English Renaissance had "rediscovered virtually every marginalized Other that passed ...
Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Scot, Alison V. ... Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640, by David M. Bergeron. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Press, 2006. Pp. vii + 247. Cloth $110.00. David M. Bergeron's book provides Renaissance scholars with a long awaited and valuable assessment of prefatory ...
Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and Their Legacy.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Scoville, Chet ... Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and Their Legacy, by Lynette R. Muir. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 294. Cloth $96.00. Like Lynette Muir's Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1995), to which this book is a "companion volume" (1), ...
Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Harbin, Andrea R. ... Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama, by Heather Hill-Vasquez. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. Pp. vii + 229. Cloth $59.95. Heather Hill-Vasquez in Sacred Players examines medieval drama in its most ...
The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons.
Jan 01, 2009; Fitter, Chris ... The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons, by Oliver Arnold. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 308 pp. Cloth $55.00. Reviewer: CHRIS FITTER Like obsessive paparazzi squinting down narrow lenses for ...
Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Kezar, Dennis ... Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England, by Rebecca Lemon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Cloth $45.00. To mangle Stein on Oakland, there is not always much there here. Rebecca Lemon tantalizes us with what at certain points ...
The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Shuger, Debora K. ... The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, by Lorna Hutson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 382. Hardback $99.00. The Invention of Suspicion is a brilliantly suggestive study of the law's relation to Elizabethan drama. The ...
Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Anderson, Thomas P. ... Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England, by Timothy Rist. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. Pp. 165. Hardback $89.95. Timothy Rist's study of Jacobean revenge tragedy moves in two directions. First, the book examines the ...
Locating Privacy in Tudor London.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Smith, Amy ... Locating Privacy in Tudor London, by Lena Orlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 392. Hardback $99.00. Lena Cowen Orlin's Locating Privacy in Tudor London gracefully and convincingly challenges what have become commonplace assumptions about privacy in the early modern ...
Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Stillman, Robert E. ... Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators, by Lukas Erne. In Shakespeare NOW! Series, edited by Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie. New York and London: Continuum, 2008. Pp. 129. Hardcover $90.00, Paperback $19.95. If every audience is a fiction, Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie can be ...
