Volume 63 Contents

Essays

The Mediation of Poesie: Ophelia's Orphic Song SCOTT A. TRUDELL 46

"This little academe, still and contemplative in living art": Shakespeare, Modernism, and the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto PATRICIA BADIR 77

George Chapman, John Davies of Hereford, William Shakespeare, and A Lover's Complaint HUGH CRAIG 147

Invocation of the Visual Image: Ekphrasis in Lucrece and Beyond CATHERINE BELSEY 175

Love's Rites: Performing Prayer in Shakespeare's Sonnets RHEMA HOKAMA 199

Trophies, Traces, Relics, and Props: The Untimely Objects of Richard III PHILIP SCHWYZER 297

Pageantry, Queens, and Housewives in the Two Texts of The Merry Wives of Windsor ELIZABETH ZEMAN KOLKOVICH 328

A Second Opinion on "Shakespeare and Authorship Studies in the Twenty-First Century" JOHN BURROWS 355

Passion Turned to Prettiness: Rhyme or Reason in Hamlet KATHERINE BOOTLE ATTIE 393

Shakespeare's Purchase of New Place ROBERT BEARMAN 465

The Disenchanted Island: A Political History of The Tempest, 1760-1830 DAVID FRANCIS TAYLOR 487

The Autumn King: Remembering the Land in King Lear JAYNE ELISABETH ARCHER, RICHARD MARGGRAF TURLEY, AND HOWARD THOMAS 518

The Anxiety of Auctoritas: Chaucer and The Two Noble Kinsmen MISHA TERAMURA 544

Positions

Defying the Stars: Tragic Love as the Struggle for Freedom in Romeo and Juliet PAUL A. KOTTMAN 1

Response to Paul A. Kottman, "Defying the Stars: Tragic Love as the Struggle for Freedom in Romeo and Juliet" JULIA REINHARD LUPTON 39

Note

Henry Condell and His London Relatives DAVID KATHMAN 108

Review Essays

Shakespeare and Queer Theory WILL STOCKTON 224

Shakespeare and the Modern Poet. TEDDY JEFFERSON 236

Book Reviews

Jonathan Gil Harris. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare. JULIAN YATES 116

Paul Hammond. The Strangeness of Tragedy. Paul A. Kottman. Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe. TZACHI ZAMIR 122

Kiernan Ryan. Shakespeare's Comedies. IAN FREDERICK MOULTON 124

Dorothea Kehler. Shakespeare's Widows. MARGARET MIKESELL 126

Richard Raatzsch. The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago. PAUL A. KOTTMAN 130

Robert Brustein. The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time. TOM BISHOP 133

Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, and Sean Keilen, eds. The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture. GRAHAM HAMMILL 135

Adrian Streete. Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England. RICHARD C. McCOY 137

Eric J. Griffin. English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire. BRIAN C. LOCKEY 140

Ayanna Thompson. Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America. VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN 244

Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson, eds. Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance. YU JIN KO 246

Jean E. Feerick. Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance. MARY FLOYD-WILSON 250

Linda Woodbridge. English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality. Marguerite A. Tassi. Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and Ethics. CHRISTOPHER CROSBIE 253

Susan Frye. Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England. REBECCA LAROCHE 256

James W. Stone. Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within. JAN PURNIS 258

Tom MacFaul. Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson. JUDITH OWENS 261

Alison Findlay. Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary. LISA HOPKINS 264

Eric Langley. Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. HEATHER HIRSCHFELD 265

Bruce Thomas Boehrer. Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature. REBECCA ANN BACH 270

Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman, eds. Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. KIMBERLY ANNE COLES 273

Sarah Beckwith. Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness. MARGRETA DE GRAZIA 276

Edward Pechter. Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost. RICHARD V. McCOY 280

Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd, eds. Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation. Greg Colón Semenza, ed. The English Renaissance in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time. Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete, eds. Filming and Performing Renaissance History. PASCALE AEBISCHER 283

Irene Dash. Shakespeare and the American Musical. HEATHER S. NATHANS 287

Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan, eds. Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance. TOM BISHOP 290

David Bevington. Shakespeare and Biography. Graham Holderness. Nine Lives of William Shakespeare. LOIS POTTER...