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• "That Liberty and Common Conversation": A Review of the SHAKSPER Listserv Discussion Group

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/rev_law1.html
  By Sean Lawrence.

• 12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/sohmjuli.html
  Steve Sohmer narrows the window of dates for the Globe's premiere to the interval 3 June-5 September 1599.

• A Bibliography of Secondary Texts Relating to Early Modern Literature and Geography

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/woolbibl.htm
  By Joanne Woolway Grenfell; published in 1998.

• A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/rev_bru1.html
  Douglas Bruster reviews the Gordon Williams book.

• A Double Spirit of Teaching: What Shakespeare's Teachers Teach Us

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01winson.html
  Patricia Winson suggests that the actual teachers in Shakespeare's plays show, in a very real way, his rebuttal against Elizabethan pedagogical debates.

• Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/murphrev.htm
  Andrew Murphy reviews the David J. Baker book.

• Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English?

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01davidson.html
  Mary Catherine Davidson suggests that sources such as Chaucerian glossaries can provide a starting point for examining if and how Shakespeare used archaic words.

• Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/siemshak.html
  R.G. Siemens examines the inherent problems and potentials of electronic editions.

• Dizzying the Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespearean Documents as Text, Image, and Code

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-3/galedizz.htm
  Alan Galey explores the consequences of the affinity between Shakespearean content and electronic media.

• Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar

  http://emc.eserver.org/
  An e-journal with current and back issues containing articles on Shakespeare.

• English Shakespeares and Much Ado About Nothing

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-3/gordrev.htm
  Christine Mack Gordon reviews two books: English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s, by Peter Holland; English Shakespeares and Much Ado About Nothing, by John Cox.

• Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare.

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-3/rev_sta1.html
  Paul G. Stanwood reviews the Jean H. Hagstrum book.

• Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/rev_long.html
  Michael Long reviews the William S. Carroll book.

• Foreword: Critical Shakespeare

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/foreword.html
  Joanne Woolway on the all Shakespeare issue of Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1 (1996).

• Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-2/rev_daw2.html
  Anthony Dawson reviews the Stephen Orgel book.

• In Arden: Editing Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Richard Proudfoot

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-2/kidthom.html
  Margaret Jane Kidnie reviews the Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan book.

• Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/rev_daw1.html
  Tony Dawson revies the Eric S. Mallin book.

• Looking with Ears, Hearing with Eyes: Shakepeare and the Ear of the Early Modern

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/robsears.htm
  Mark Robson examines the problems posed by orality in various Shakespearean plays.

• Marxist Shakespeares

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-2/eganrev.htm
  Gabriel Egan reviews the Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow book.

• Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/burorev.htm
  Elizabeth Burow-Flak reviews the Cynthia Lewis book.

• Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/rev_wil1.html
  Robert Grant Williams reviews the Susan Bennett book.

• Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare's Drama of Language

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/pendrev.htm
  John Pendergast reviews the David Lucking book.

• Public Privates

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/PRIVATE%20PARTS.txt
  Al Cacicedo's preliminary notes for a longish essay on gender identity in Shakespeare.

• Reading Shakespeare Historically

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/rev_mcla.html
  Anne McLaren reviews the Lisa Jardine book.

• Reconstructing Shakespeare's Second Globe Using Computer Aided Design (CAD) Tools

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-13/fitzpatrick/index.htm
  Tim Fitzpatrick describes a research project which used computer-aided design in an attempt to understand the structural features implicit in Wenzel Hollar's 1630s sketch of the second Globe playhouse in London.

• Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-3/rev_god1.html
  W.L. Godshalk reviews the Alan C. Dessen book.

• Religion in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-3/abaterev.htm
  Corinne S. Abate reviews the Gerald M. Pinciss book.

• Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/rev_goo2.html
  Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews the Simon Jarvis book.

• Shakespeare & the Poets' War

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/steg1rev.htm
  Matthew Steggle reviews the James Bednarz book.

• Shakespeare After Theory

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/gieskrev.htm
  Edward Gieskes reviews the David Scott Kastan book.

• Shakespeare Among the Moderns and Philosophical Shakespeares

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/starlrev.htm
  Roger Starling reviews the Richard Halpern book.

• Shakespeare and National Culture

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_voe.html
  Swen Voekel reviews the John J. Joughin book.

• Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/alyarev.html
  Amina Alyal reviews the W.B. Worthen book.

• Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-1/rev_bad1.html
  Patricia Badir reviews the John Gillies book.

• Shakespeare and the Good Life: Ethics and Politics in Dramatic Form

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-3/tessrev.htm
  Jeffrey Tessier reviews the David Lowenthal book.

• Shakespeare and the Politics of Community

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/wardshak.html
  Ian Ward investigates the idea of narrative community, and suggests its import for contemporary legal and political theory.

• Shakespeare Editions, A Shakespeare Suite CD-Rom

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-2/stegbest.html
  Matthew Steggle reviews the collection.

• Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/rev_bly2.html
  Mary Bly reviews the Patricia Parker book.

• Shakespeare on Television: A Bibliography of Criticism

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm
  Its coverage is exhaustive up to 1999, by José Ramón Díaz-Fernández.

• Shakespeare the Historian

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_sic2.html
  Michael T. Siconolfi reviews the Paola Pugliatti book.

• Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Rituals Foundations of Genre

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/rev_kah1.html
  Jeffrey Kahan reviews the Naomi Conn Liebler book.

• Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_goo5.html
  Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews the J.R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring book.

• Shakespeare's Mystery Play: The Opening of the Globe, 1599

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-3/eganrev.htm
  Gabriel Egan reviews the Steve Sohmer book.

• Shakespeare's Promises

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-3/revclar.htm
  Danielle Clarke reviews the William Kerrigan book.

• Shakespeare's Speech-Headings

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/waltrev.htm
  Andrew Murphy reviews the George Walton Williams book.

• Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics and the Translation of Empire

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/griffrev.html
  Huw Griffiths reviews the Heather James book.

• Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_bun.html
  Nancy Bunker reviews the W. R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman book.

• Shakespeare, Sex, and the Print Revolution

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-3/alyarev.htm
  Amina Alyal reviews the Gordon Williams book.

• Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/ivicrev.html
  Christopher Ivic reviews the Christopher Highley book.

• Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_bur.html
  Mark Thornton Burnett reviews the Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt book.

• Shakespeare: A Life

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/hamprev.htm
  Stuart Hampton-Reeves reviews the Park Honan book.

• Shakespeare’s Universe: Renaissance Ideas and Conventions (Essays in Honour of W.R. Elton)

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-1/rev_cirr.html
  Steve Cirrone reviews the John M. Mucciolo book.

• Shame in Shakespeare

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-1/brotrev.htm
  Jerry Brotton reviews the Ewan Fernie book.

• Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-1/rev_bly3.html
  Mary Bly reviews the Jeffrey Masten book.

• The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Study

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/rev_siem.html
  R.G. Siemens reviews the collection, the editors of which are Jonathan Bate and Thomas Nelson.

• The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: Text and Performance Archive

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-1/bestrev.html
  Michael Best reviews the Christie Carson and Jacky Bratton book.

• The Common Reader's Shakespeare

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/lancshak.html
  Ian Lancashire examines the role that Internet Shakespeare Editions must play in the future.

• The First Quarto of Hamlet and Edward III

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/gordonrev.htm
  Christine Mack Gordon reviews two books: The First Quarto of Hamlet, Ed. Kathleen O. Irace; King Edward III. Ed. Giorgio Melchiori.

• The Image of America in Montaigne, Spenser, and Shakespeare: Renaissance Ethnography and Literary Reflection

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/rev_woo1.html
  Donna C. Woodford reviews the William M. Hamlin book.

• The Merchant of Venice: Choice, Hazard and Consequence

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-2/rev_goo4.html
  Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews the Joan Ozark Holmer book.

• The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-2/rev_bud1.html
  Paul Budra reviews the Louis Montrose book.

• The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-2/rev_goo1.html
  Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews the Eric Sams book.

• The Rhetoric of the Body: From Ovid To Shakespeare

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/kuchrev.htm
  Gary Kuchar reviews the Lynn Enterline book.

• The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-1/rev_goo6.html
  Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews the Harry Keyishian book.

• The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-2/anderev.html
  Thomas Page Anderson reviews the Christopher Pye book.

• Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares: Kiddie Culture, Queer Theory, and Loser Criticism

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/ghosrev.htm
  Indira Ghose reviews the Richard Burt book.

• Women Reading Shakespeare 1660-1900: An Anthology of Criticism

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-1/rev_gor1.html
  Christine Mack Gordon reviews the Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts book.

 

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