Shakespeare Studies
Volume 53
Will be published approx. on 11. December 2025
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-68393-991-7 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature, published annually with peer-reviewed articles, forums, and reviews.
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual, and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles, Shakespeare Studies offers opportunities for extended intellectual exchange through its thematically focused forums and includes substantial reviews. An international editorial board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period-for research scholars as well as teachers, actors, and directors.
Volume 53 includes a Forum entitled "Marlowe Revisited: Text, Performance, Legacy" with contributions from Lucy Munro, Adam Zucker, Kerry Cooke, Hannah L. Wilson, Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Jade Standing, Kitamura Sae, Christine Varnado, and Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw.
And featuring contributions from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America with articles by Andrew Hiscock ("'you performe your Antique round': Taking the Measure of Tyranny for a Twenty-first Century Macbeth"); Laura Kolb ("Becoming Tricky in Measure for Measure: Isabella's Silences Revisited"); Jessica M. Rosenberg ("Two Knacks in The Winter's Tale"); Kelly Lehtonen ("Virtuous Attention: Desire, Knowledge, and Compassion in Much Ado about Nothing"); and Kelsey Ridge ("'It was a torment / To lay upon the damned': Ariel and Trauma in The Tempest").
Book reviews consider important publications: Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays; Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds; Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries; The Bard in the Borderlands; Shakespeare's White Others; The Great White Bard; Wartime Shakespeare; and Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface.
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual, and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles, Shakespeare Studies offers opportunities for extended intellectual exchange through its thematically focused forums and includes substantial reviews. An international editorial board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period-for research scholars as well as teachers, actors, and directors.
Volume 53 includes a Forum entitled "Marlowe Revisited: Text, Performance, Legacy" with contributions from Lucy Munro, Adam Zucker, Kerry Cooke, Hannah L. Wilson, Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Jade Standing, Kitamura Sae, Christine Varnado, and Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw.
And featuring contributions from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America with articles by Andrew Hiscock ("'you performe your Antique round': Taking the Measure of Tyranny for a Twenty-first Century Macbeth"); Laura Kolb ("Becoming Tricky in Measure for Measure: Isabella's Silences Revisited"); Jessica M. Rosenberg ("Two Knacks in The Winter's Tale"); Kelly Lehtonen ("Virtuous Attention: Desire, Knowledge, and Compassion in Much Ado about Nothing"); and Kelsey Ridge ("'It was a torment / To lay upon the damned': Ariel and Trauma in The Tempest").
Book reviews consider important publications: Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays; Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds; Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries; The Bard in the Borderlands; Shakespeare's White Others; The Great White Bard; Wartime Shakespeare; and Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 bw
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68393-991-7 (9781683939917)
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01/2026
1st Edition
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
€100.99
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E-Book
01/2026
1st Edition
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
€100.99
Available for download
Persons
James R. Siemon is professor of English at Boston University, US.
Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at MIT, US.
Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at MIT, US.
Content
FORUM Marlowe Revisited: Text, Performance, Legacy
Introduction
Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK
Desunt Nonnulla: Unfinishing Hero and Leander
Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
"The closet of my heart": Letters, Secretariats, and Erotic Encryption in Edward II
Kerry Cooke, Mary Baldwin University, US
Marlowe's Mighty Scaffolded Line: Christopher Marlowe, Training Practices, and the Playing Companies of Elizabethan London
Hannah L. Wilson, King's College London, UK
"Here have I made a dainty gallery": Playhouse Space and Performance in The Jew of Malta
Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Uppsala University, Sweden
"And yet they thrust not home": The Swords of the Marlovian Stage
Jade Standing, Queen's University, Canada
How to Burn a Character on the Early Modern Stage: Fire in Dido, Queen of Carthage
Kitamura Sae, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The Extra Devil, Revisited
Christine Varnado, University at Buffalo-SUNY, US
"Redress these wrongs and warn him to his ships": Slave Trade Routes, the Maltese Ship Carriere, and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage
Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw, Arizona State University, US
NEXT GENERATION PLENARY
Introduction
Cuckold Communities in the Kinky Early Modern
Erika Carbonara, Kalamazoo College, US
Three Copies of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Margaux Delaney, Cornell University, US
Skin Coats and the Texture of Race in Stuart Masques
Lily Freeman-Jones, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Cleopatra's "Immoment Toys"
Arya Sureshbabu, University of California, Berkeley, US
ARTICLES
"you perform your Antique round": Taking the Measure of Tyranny for a Twenty-First Century Macbeth
Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, Wales, UK
Becoming Tricky in Measure for Measure: Isabella's Silences Revisited
Laura Kolb, Baruch College, CUNY, US
Two Knacks in The Winter's Tale
Jessica M. Rosenberg, Cornell University, US
Virtuous Attention: Desire, Knowledge, and Compassion in Much Ado about Nothing
Kelly Lehtonen, Campbellsville University, US
"It was a torment/ To lay upon the damned": Ariel and Trauma in The Tempest
Kelsey Ridge, Alvernia University, US
REVIEWS
Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays
By Hailey Bachrach
Reviewer: Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania, US
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
By Ambereen Dadabhoy
Reviewer: Bernadette Andrea, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
By Edward Gieskes
Reviewer: Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations En La Frontera, Volume 1
Edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos
Reviewer: Vanessa I. Corredera, Andrews University, US
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
By Farah Karim-Cooper
and
Shakespeare's White Others
By David Sterling Brown
Reviewer: Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky, US
Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict
By Amy Lidster
Reviewer: Nicholas Utzig, U.S. Military Academy West Point, US
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface
By Liz Oakley-Brown
Reviewer: Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, US
INDEX
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction
Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK
Desunt Nonnulla: Unfinishing Hero and Leander
Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
"The closet of my heart": Letters, Secretariats, and Erotic Encryption in Edward II
Kerry Cooke, Mary Baldwin University, US
Marlowe's Mighty Scaffolded Line: Christopher Marlowe, Training Practices, and the Playing Companies of Elizabethan London
Hannah L. Wilson, King's College London, UK
"Here have I made a dainty gallery": Playhouse Space and Performance in The Jew of Malta
Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Uppsala University, Sweden
"And yet they thrust not home": The Swords of the Marlovian Stage
Jade Standing, Queen's University, Canada
How to Burn a Character on the Early Modern Stage: Fire in Dido, Queen of Carthage
Kitamura Sae, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The Extra Devil, Revisited
Christine Varnado, University at Buffalo-SUNY, US
"Redress these wrongs and warn him to his ships": Slave Trade Routes, the Maltese Ship Carriere, and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage
Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw, Arizona State University, US
NEXT GENERATION PLENARY
Introduction
Cuckold Communities in the Kinky Early Modern
Erika Carbonara, Kalamazoo College, US
Three Copies of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Margaux Delaney, Cornell University, US
Skin Coats and the Texture of Race in Stuart Masques
Lily Freeman-Jones, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Cleopatra's "Immoment Toys"
Arya Sureshbabu, University of California, Berkeley, US
ARTICLES
"you perform your Antique round": Taking the Measure of Tyranny for a Twenty-First Century Macbeth
Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, Wales, UK
Becoming Tricky in Measure for Measure: Isabella's Silences Revisited
Laura Kolb, Baruch College, CUNY, US
Two Knacks in The Winter's Tale
Jessica M. Rosenberg, Cornell University, US
Virtuous Attention: Desire, Knowledge, and Compassion in Much Ado about Nothing
Kelly Lehtonen, Campbellsville University, US
"It was a torment/ To lay upon the damned": Ariel and Trauma in The Tempest
Kelsey Ridge, Alvernia University, US
REVIEWS
Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays
By Hailey Bachrach
Reviewer: Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania, US
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
By Ambereen Dadabhoy
Reviewer: Bernadette Andrea, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
By Edward Gieskes
Reviewer: Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations En La Frontera, Volume 1
Edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos
Reviewer: Vanessa I. Corredera, Andrews University, US
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
By Farah Karim-Cooper
and
Shakespeare's White Others
By David Sterling Brown
Reviewer: Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky, US
Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict
By Amy Lidster
Reviewer: Nicholas Utzig, U.S. Military Academy West Point, US
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface
By Liz Oakley-Brown
Reviewer: Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, US
INDEX
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS