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Volume 9 (2012)

“A Kyng That Ruled All By Lust”: Richard II in Elizabethan Literature (pages 183–198)
Lea Luecking Frost
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“Decline and British Romantic Literary Culture” (pages 56–65)
Jonathan Sachs
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The Romantic Aesthetics of Settlement in 19th Century Canada (pages 66–79)
D. M. R. Bentley
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Volume 8 (2011)

The Prison in Early Modern Drama (pages 34–47)
Ruth Ahnert
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Toxic Encounters: Poisoning in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (pages 48–55)
Catherine E. Thomas
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Lost Plays from Early Modern England: Voyage Drama, A Case Study (pages 534–542)
David McInnis
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The Chivalric Imagination in Elizabethan England (pages 302–315)
Marco Nievergelt
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Jacobean and Caroline Masquing Culture: Studies on Early Stuart Entertainments, 1998–2010 (pages 173–183)
Peter Sillitoe

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Reading the Chester Cycle (pages 184–194)
Elizabeth M. S. Baldwin

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Reading Early Modern Food: A Review Article (pages 118–129)
Joan Fitzpatrick

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Reading Early Modern Food: A Review Article (pages 118–129)
Joan Fitzpatrick

Volume 7 (2010)

Early Modern English Catholicism and the Rewriting of Literary History (p 531-541)
Susannah Monta

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Virtuous Viragos: Female Heroism and Ethical Action in Shakespearean Drama (p 397-411)
Unhae Langis

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The Literature of Early Modern Childhoods (p 412-423)
Edel Lamb

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Realigning English Vernacular Poetics Through Metrical Experiment: Sixteenth-Century Translation and the Elizabethan Quantitative Verse Movement (p 303-317)
Gabriela Schmidt

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Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture: Is it Time to Move Beyond Charges of Anachronism? (p 318-331)
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy

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The Bishops’ Ban of 1599 and the Ideology of English Satire (p 332-346)
William R. Jones

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The Absent Female Friend: Recent Studies in Early Modern Women’s Friendship (p 243-253)
Penelope Anderson

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How to do the History of Heterosexuality: Shakespeare and Lacan (p 254-265)
Will Stockton

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Doing Away with the Drab Age: Research Opportunities in Mid-Tudor Literature (1530–1580) (p 160-176)
Mike Pincombe, Cathy Shrank

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‘Outlandish Love’: Marriage and Immigration in City Comedies (p 16-32)
Scott Oldenburg

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Volume 6 (2009)

Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature (p 997-1013)
Steven Mentz

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Take Five: Renaissance Literature and the Study of the Senses (p 1014-1030)
Patricia A. Cahill

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Some Versions of the Hortus Conclusus in Elizabethan Landscape and Literature (p 349-361)
Mark Jones

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The Tudor Coronation Ceremonies in History and Criticism (p 362-372)
Alice Hunt

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New Journeys through Old Voyages: Literary Approaches to Richard Hakluyt and Early Modern Travel Writing (p 97-112)
Colm MacCrossan

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Romance on the Early Modern Stage (p 113-127)
Cyrus Mulready

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Volume 5 (2008)

House of Mirrors: Textual Variation and the Mirror for Magistrates (p 772-790)
Elizabeth M. A. Human

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English Renaissance Drama: The Imprints of Performance (p 529-540)
J. Gavin Paul

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Volume 4 (2007)

John Milton’s Politics, Republicanism and the Terms of Liberty (p 1561-1576)
Rosanna Cox

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Dutch Influences on English Literary Culture in the Early Renaissance, 1470–1650 (p 1577-1596)
Ben Parsons

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‘Thair is Richt Litill Play at My Hungrie Hart’: Politics and Play in David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (p 1597-1611)
Joanna Martin

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Recent Studies in Religion and Renaissance Drama (p 1612-1624)
David Coleman

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‘Knowledge Shall be Increased’: Natural Philosophy and Religion in the Early Modern Utopia (p 1397-1411)
Chloe Houston

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Walter Ralegh and the Arts of Memory (p 1030-1058)
Andrew Hiscock

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Empire, Exile, and England’s ‘British Problem’: Recent Approaches to Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender as a Colonial and Postcolonial Text (p 1059-1077)
Stewart Mottram

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‘Paper Frames’: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and the Seventeenth-Century Country House Poem (p 664-676)
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

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The Forgotten Greek Books of Elizabethan England (p 677-687)
Kirsty Milne

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Noli Me Tangere: Revealing New Approaches to Early Drama (p 688-697)
Katie Normington

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Women’s Patronage-Seeking as Familial Enterprise: Aemilia Lanyer, Esther Inglis, and Mary Wroth (p 384-406)
Theresa D. Kemp

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Volume 3 (2006)

My King, My Country, Alone for Whom I Live: The Pragmatic Imperatives of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Verse (p 1278-1296)
Jon Robinson

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What are “Things” Saying in Renaissance Studies? (p 992-1010)
Julian Yates

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Tudor Religious Cultures in Practice: The Piety and Politics of Grace Mildmay and Her Circle (p 1011-1043)
Nancy Bradley Warren

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Moors, Race, and the Study of English Renaissance Literature: A Brief Retrospective (p 1044-1052)
Mary Floyd-Wilson

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Print Culture, Ephemera, and the Elizabethan News Pamphlet (p 1053-1064)
Paul J. Voss

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The View from the Interior: The New Body Scholarship in Renaissance/Early Modern Studies (p 778-791)
Sean McDowell

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Early Modern Women’s Writing in 2005 (p 792-803)
Erica Longfellow

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Science Studies and English Renaissance Literature (p 341-365)
Howard Marchitello

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The Development of the English Love Lyric, 1580–1680 (p 366-375)
Patricia Crouch

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Access and Agency in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam: Early Modern Closet Drama and the Spatialization of Power¹ (p 80-94)
Carol Mejia-LaPerle

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“I Can neither Write nor Be Silent:” The Circulation of Women’s Texts in Sidney’s Old Arcadia* (p 95-106)
Lucian Ghita

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Pamphlets and Body-Related Metaphors in Thomas Nashe’s Pierce Penilesse and Strange Newes (p 107-116)
Chloe Chen

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A Readable Earlier Renaissance: Small Adjustments, Large Changes (p 1-14)
A. E. B. Coldiron

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Volume 2 (2005)

Men Who Weep and Wail: Masculinity and Emotion in Sidney’s New Arcadia (p **-**)
Jennifer C. Vaught

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Recent Critical Approaches to Sidney’s Literary Production (p **-**)
Peter Sillitoe

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Short Shrift: Religion and Materialist Criticism (p **-**)
Sean Benson

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“Nowhere is a Place”: Travel Writing in Sixteenth-Century England* (p **-**)
Evi Mitsi

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Early Modern Historiography (p **-**)
Dan Breen

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Marian and Jacobean Literature (p **-**)
Sarah Dunnigan

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Modern Problems of Editing: The Two Texts of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (p **-**)
Andrew Duxfield

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‘That Every Man May Knaw’: Reformation and Rhetoric in the Works of Sir David Lyndsay (p **-**)
Kevin J. McGinley

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From Sermon to Play: Literary Representations of ‘Turks’ in Renaissance England 1550–1625 (p **-**)
Stephan Schmuck

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Linking Teaching and Research through Technology (p **-**)
Christie Carson

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An Age in Love with Wonders: The Philosophical Context of Renaissance Literature (p **-**)
Neil Allan

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Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism (p **-**)
Peter C. Herman

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Volume 1 (2004)

Renaissance Literary Studies after Theory: Aesthetics, History and the Human (p **-**)
Andy Mousley

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Friendship in Renaissance England (p **-**)
Christopher Marlow

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John Dee and Early Modern Occult Philosophy (p **-**)
György E. Szönyi

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Donne and the Uses of Anatomy (p **-**)
Richard Sugg

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‘Parrots and Pieces of Eight’: Recent Trends in Pirate Studies (p **-**)
Claire Jowitt

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Shakespeare and the Theatre Reviewer (p **-**)
Paul Prescott

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Elizabethan Romance (p **-**)
David Salter

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Sexual Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (p **-**)
Liz Oakley-Brown

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“Where is the court but here?” Undetermined Elite Space and Marlowe’s Edward II (p **-**)
Peter Sillitoe

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The Antitheatrical Criticism of Stephen Gosson (p **-**)
Héloϊse Sénéchal

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Jacobean and Caroline Prose Romance (p **-**)
Rebecca Lindner

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Renaissance Religious Prose (p **-**)
Mary Morrissey

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