Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-2000

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies is a book-length compendium of reflections on issues pertinent to the field of early modern literary studies. This volume, currently in progress, is a contribution intended to broaden and deepen the field internationally, as an aid also to new research in the area. In doing so, it reflects and augments leading research in the area, signals trends and current research, and offers a broad and deep foundation for further work to come. A proper introduction will follow shortly.

• Foreword (Raymond G. Siemens, University of British Columbia)
• Skelton and Barclay, Medieval and Modern (David R. Carlson, University of Ottawa)
• King Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes (Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. Lawrence University)
• "This innocent worke": Adam and Eve, John Smith, William Wood and the North American Plantations (Graham Roebuck, McMaster University)
• Milton and the Jacobean Church of England (Daniel W. Doerksen, University of New Brunswick)
• The Texts of Troilus and Cressida (W.L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati)
• 'Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also': George Herbert's Vision of Stuart Magistracy (Jeffrey Powers-Beck, East Tennessee State University)
• From Book to Screen: A Window on Renaissance Electronic Texts (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
• Marking his Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation (Sara van den Berg, University of Washington, Seattle)
• Protocols of Reading: Milton and Biography (J. Michael Vinovich, University of Toronto)
• Shifting Signs: Increase Mather and the Comets of 1680 and 1682 (Andrew P. Williams, North Carolina Central University)

• Personations: The Taming of the Shrew and the Limits of Theoretical Criticism (Paul Yachnin, University of British Columbia)
• The Madness of Syracusan Antipholus (Robert Viking O'Brien, California State University, Chico)
• "The price of one fair word": Negotiating Names in Coriolanus (David Lucking, University of Lecce, Italy)
• Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther (Steve Sohmer)
• "And shall I die, and this unconquered?": Marlowe's Inverted Colonialism (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University)
• New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture (Margaret Downs-Gamble, Virginia Tech)
• England as Israel in Milton's Writings (John K. Hale, University of Otago)
• Popular Hermeneutics: Monstrous Children in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads (Helaine Razovsky, Northwestern State University)
• Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612 (Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta)
• "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas" (Jean E. Graham, The College of New Jersey)

• 12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe (Steve Sohmer)
• Isabella Whitney's "Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith" (Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick)
• Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle (Emma Roth-Schwartz)
• Marlowe, Edward II, and the Cult of Elizabeth (Dennis Kay, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
• The Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre (Chris Fitter, Rutgers University, Camden)