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SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 40.2 (2000) 387-394



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Bains, Yashdip S. "Anthony and Cleopatra": An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies 27. New York: Garland, 1998. Pp. xxi + 527. $95.00. ISBN 0-8153-1474-4.

Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 384. $17.95. ISBN 0-19-512823-0.

Bates, Catherine. Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Freud. London: Open Gate Press, 1999. Pp. vi + 242. £12.95 paper. ISBN 1-871871-47-6.

Berger, Thomas L., William C. Bradford, and Sidney L. Sandergard. An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama: Printed Plays, 1500-1660. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. 170. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62149-6.

Bevington, David, and Peter Holbrook, eds. The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 335. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-59436-7.

Booth, Stephen. Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's "Epitaphs on His Children," and "Twelfth Night." Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: Univ. of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 218. $35.00. ISBN 0-520-21288-6.

Brown, John Russell. New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia. New York and London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x + 211. $65.00 cloth. ISBN 0-415-19449-0. $21.99 paper. ISBN 0-415-19450-4.

Brown, Peter, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. x + 194. $60.00. ISBN 0-19-818363-1.

Butler, Martin, ed. Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance. Early Modern Literature in History. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 255. $55.00. UK ISBN 0-333-72041-5; US ISBN 0-312-22093-6.

Cartelli, Thomas. Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xi + 233. $85.00 cloth. ISBN 0-415-19134-3. $24.99 paper. ISBN 0-415-19498-9.

Chapman, George. Bussy D'Ambois. Ed. Nicholas Brook. Revels Plays. Manchester and New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. lxxvi + 169. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-5696-9.

Charney, Maurice. Shakespeare on Love and Lust. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 234. $27.95. ISBN 0-231-10428-6.

Clare, Janet. Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship. Revels Plays Companion Library. Manchester and New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 2d edn., 1999. Pp. xiv + 242. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-5695-0.

Comensoli, Viviana, and Anne Russell, eds. Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage. Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 270. $49.95 cloth. ISBN 0-252-02423-0. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-252-06730-4.

Corum, Richard. Understanding "Hamlet": A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Literature in Context. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 271. $39.95. ISBN 0-313-29877-7.

Coursen, H. R. Shakespeare: The Two Traditions. Madison and Teaneck NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1999. Pp. 271. $42.50. ISBN 0-8386-3774-4.

Coyle, Martin, ed. "The Merchant of Venice": William Shakespeare. New Casebooks. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 248. $45.00. ISBN 0-312-21689-0.

Daileader, Celia R. Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 194. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-62379-0.

Dekker, Thomas. The Shoemaker's Holiday. Ed. R. L. Smallwood and Stanley Wells. Revels Plays. Manchester and New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 227. $19.95. ISBN 0-7190-3099-4.

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