Books Received

Aasand, Hardin L., ed. Stage Directions in "Hamlet": New Essays and New Directions. Madison and Teaneck NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 2003. Pp. 234. $44.50. ISBN 0-8386-3946-1.

Abbott, E. A. A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences between Elizabethan and Modern English. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 2003. Pp. xxiv + 511. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-486-43135-5.

Alexander, Catherine M. S., ed. The Cambridge Shakespeare Library. Volume 1: Shakespeare's Times, Texts, and Stages. Intro. Stanley Wells. Pp. xii + 472. Volume 2: Shakespeare Criticism. Intro. Terence Hawkes. Pp. iv + 464. Volume 3: Shakespeare Performance. Intro. Peter Holland. Pp. iv + 460. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003. $425.00. ISBN 0-521-82433-8.

Alfar, Cristina León. Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London and Cranbury NJ: Associated Univ. Presses, 2003. Pp. 254. $46.50. ISBN 0-87413-781-0.

Bell, Millicent. Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2002. Pp. xvii + 283. $26.00. ISBN 0-300-09255-5.

Bloom, Harold. "Hamlet": Poem Unlimited. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Pp. 154. $19.95. ISBN 1-57322-233-X.

Brown, Pamela Allen. Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 263. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-8014-8836-2.

Bruster, Douglas. Shakespeare and the Question of Culture: Early Modern Literature and the Cultural Turn. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Houndmills UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxi + 279. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-312-29439-5.

Brydon, Diana, and Irena R. Makaryk, eds. Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere? Toronto, Buffalo, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 490. $70.00 or £42.00. ISBN 0-8020-3655-4.

Cavell, Stanley. Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare. Updated edn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 250. $23.00 paper. ISBN 0-521-52920-4.

Clark, Ira. Comedy, Youth, Manhood in Early Modern England. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London and Cranbury NJ: Associated Univ. Presses, 2003. Pp. 170. $39.50. ISBN 0-87413-828-0.

Coronato, Rocco. Jonson Versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque. Studies in Comparative Literature 41. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003. Pp. viii + 267. $63.00. ISBN 90-420-1174-2.

Coronato, Rocco. Shakespeare's Neighbors: Theory Matters in the Bard and His Contemporaries. Lanham MD, New York, and Oxford: Univ. Press of America, 2001. Pp. xvii + 176. $28.00 paper. ISBN 0-7618-2146-5.

Crowl, Samuel. Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2003. Pp. xiv + 254. $34.95. ISBN 0-8214-1494-1.

Crystal, David, and Ben Crystal. Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion. Preface by Stanley Wells. New York and London: Penguin, 2003. $18.00 paper. ISBN 0-140-29117-2.

Davis, Lloyd, ed. Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London and Cranbury NJ: Associated Univ. Presses, 2003. Pp. 330. $55.00. ISBN 0-87413-790-X.

Dutton, Richard, and Jean E. Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Vol 1: The Tragedies. Pp. x + 491. ISBN 0-631-22632-X. Vol. 2: The Histories. Pp. x + 484. ISBN 0-631-22633-8. Vol. 3: The Comedies. Pp. x + 464. ISBN 0-631-22634-6. Vol. 4: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays. Pp. xi + 482. ISBN 0-631-22635-4. Oxford and Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. $400.00.

Engel, William E. Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 200. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-925762-0.

Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 287. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-82255-6.

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