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 and also for teachers, actors and directors. Volume 51 includes a Forum on the work of Michael D Bristol, with contributions from J. F. Bernard, Gail Kern Paster, James Siemon, Jill Ingram, Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton, Anna Lewton-Brain and Brooke Harvey, Nicholas Utzig, and Paul Yachnin. Volume 51 includes articles from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America and essays by Laurence Senelick ("A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage"), Christopher D'Addario ("Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and The Alchemist"), and Denise A. Walen ("Elbowing Katherine of Valois"). Book reviews consider eleven important publications on liberty of speech and female voice; theaters of catastrophe; adaptations of Macbeth; staging touch in Shakespeare's England; the criticism of Hugh Grady; Shakespeare and World War II film; Shakespeare and digital pedagogy; Shakespeare and forgetting; Shakespeare and disability studies, and Shakespeare's private life.
James R. Siemon is professor of English at Boston University. Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at MIT.
Forum: For Mike Bristol Big-Time Shakespeare, Calvin and Hobbes, and Sandy Koufax: How Michael Bristol Ruined My Life J.F. Bernard "I have drunk and seen the spider": Cognition, Affect, and the Carnivalesque in The Winter's Tale Gail Kern Paster "Married in conjunction"? Shakespearean Conversations and Complications James Siemon Michael Bristol's Heuristics of Carnival in London's Civic Pageantry Jill Ingram Shakespeare's Virtues for Our Times Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton Trauma-Informed "Vernacular Criticism" and Pedagogy: A Case Study of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece Anna Lewton-Brain and Brooke Harvey Shakespearean Jus Post Bellum: Ethical Ends to War in Henry V Nicholas Utzig Shakespeare's Gifts: Commerce, Conversation, Conversion Paul Yachnin Next Generation Plenary Introduction How to Do Things with Sweat Beatrice Bradley The Specter of Disability in Early Modern Drama Evyan Dale Gainey The Devil You Know: Anti-Black Racism and the Mythologies of English Witchcraft Hannah Korell Epicene: Female Revenge in the Husband-Taming Comedy Bailey Sincox Did Environmental Catastrophe Have a Renaissance? John Yargo Articles A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage Laurence Senelick Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and The Alchemist Christopher D'addario Elbowing Katherine of Valois Denise A. Walen Review Essay Heather James, Ovid and Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England and Christina Luckyj, Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England Jenny C. Mann Reviews Richard Ashby, King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama Martin Harries William C. Carroll, Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. , Shakespeare and British World War II Film Yu Jin Ko Hugh Grady, Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope: From the Political to the Utopian John Drakakis Diana E. Henderson and Kyle Sebastian Vitale, eds., Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy: Case Studies and Strategies Christie Carson Peter Holland, Shakespeare and Forgetting Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Shakespeare and Disability Studies Justin P. Shaw Alex MacConochie, Staging Touch in Shakespeare's England Laura Seymour Lena Cowen Orlin, The Private Life of William Shakespeare Laurie Maguire
