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.
Edited by:
Diana E. Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA),
James R. Siemon
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 232mm,
Width: 154mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781683939917
ISBN 10: 1683939913
Series: Shakespeare Studies
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 22 January 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
