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Brief Notices Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber, eds. and trans. Landmark Yiddish Plays:A CriticalAnthology.Albany: State University ofNew York Press,2006. Pp. vii + 356. $89.50 casebound; $29.95 paperbound . Following acknowledgments (vii),an introduction (1-72), and a translators' note (73-80),this volume contains newtranslations ofthe followingplays:Aaron Halle Wolfssohn, SUliness and Sanctimony (81-112); Shloyme Ettinger, Sekele, or,In Mourningfora Brotìier(113-200);Avrom Goldfaden, The TwoKuni-Lemls (201-47), with appendix: "Music to The Two Kuni-Lemls" (247-56); Peretz Hirschbein, Miriam (257-90); and Alter Kacyzne, TAe Duke (291-356). José Manuel Gonzalez, ed. Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. Pp. 327. $60.00. Following an introduction by the editor,"Shakespearean Criticism in Contemporary Spain" (7-20), this volume contains essays in four parts. Part 1, "Manuscripts and Editions," includes Ángel Luis Pujante,"Manuel Herrera on Shakespeare: A New Spanish Manuscript from the Romantic Period" (21-42); and Jesús Tronch Pérez,"Editing (and Reviving) National Authors: Shakespeare and Cervantes" (43-60). Part 2, "The Poetry of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries ," includes Brian Crews,"Rewriting/Deconstructing Shakespeare: Outlining Possibilities, Sometimes Humorous, for Sonnet 18" (61-72); Sonia Hernández Santano, "Shakespeare's Departure from the Ovidian Myth of Venus andAdonia (73-88); and Maria J. Pando Cantelli,"John Donne, Francisco de Quevedo, and the Construction of Subjectivity in Early Modern Poetry" (89-1 16). Part 3,"Shakespeare Plays, Critical Interpretations and Stage Productions ," includes Clara Calvo, "Deforeignizing Shakespeare: Otelo in Romantic Spain" (117-29); Ana Maria Manzanas, "The Making and Unmaking of a Colonial Subject: Othello" (130-47); Luis Garcia Mainar, "Shakespeare's Romeo andJuliet, and Male Melodrama" (148-70); María Luisa Dañobeitia Fernández, "Cleopatra's Role-Taking: A Study ofAntonyand Cleopatra" (171-95); Robert 259 260ComparativeDrama K. Shepherd,"Shakespeare's HenryV: Person and Persona" (196-204); and Keith Gregor,"/u7ius Caesar and the Spanish Tradition" (205-18). Part 4, "The Theater of Shakespeare's Contemporaries," includes Miguel Martínez López, "The Philosophy of Death in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus" (219-33); Josephine Bregazzi,"Changing Roles: Gender Marking through Syntactic Distribution in the Jacobean Theater" (234-49); José Manuel González,"The Court Drama of Ben Jonson and Calderón" (250-61); Purification Ribes, "Spanish Adaptations of Ben Jonson's Volpone" (262-98); and Luciano Garcia, "The Duchess ofMain and El mayordomo de ¡a duquesa deAmalfi Revisited: Some Differences in Literary Convention and Cultural Horizon" (299-310). The volume concludes with a list of contributors (311-13), a bibliography (314-22), and an index (323-27). Clifford Davidson, ed. The Dramatic Tradition ofthe MiddleAges. Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 317. $78.50. This volume begins with a list ofillustrations (viii-x) and a preface by the editor (xi-xvi) and contains the following essays: Michael Norton and Amelia Carr,"Women's Liturgical Manuscripts at Klosterneuburg" (1-15); Nils Holger Petersen, "Another Visitatio Sepulchri from Scandinavia" (16-24); Mark Pilkinton,"The Easter Sepulcher at St. MaryRedcliffe, Bristol" (25-27); Dunbar H. Ogden,"The Visitado Sepulchri: Public Enactment and Hidden Rite" (28-35); Marin Walsh, "Eulenspiegel (Episode 13) as a Theater-Historical Document" (36-45); Nicholas J. Rogers,"Mechanical Images at Salisbury* (46-47); Jennifer Alexander,"The MollyGrime Ritual in Glentham Church" (48-57); Hans-Jürgen Diller, "A Palmesel from the Cracow Region" (58-62); Gunilla Iversen, "O Virginitas, in regali thalamo stay, New Light on the Ordo Virtutum: Hildegard, Richardis, and the Order of the Virtues" (63-78); Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, "Another Manuscript of the Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen" (79-83); Rick Johnson, "Sequential Ordo Virtutum at Ann Arbor: A Performance in Memory ofBarbara Thornton" (84-86); Michael Milway,"Boy Bishops in Early Modern Europe: Ritual,Myth,and Reality"(87-97);JohnW.Velz,"Adoxography as Mode ofDiscourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays" (98-108); Yumi Dohi,"Melchisedek in Late Medieval Religious Drama" (109-27); Mikiko Ishii,"A Spoon and the Christ Child" (128-39); Elza Tiner, "Enlish Law in the York Trial Plays" (140-49); Mark R. Sullivan,"The Missing York Funeral ofthe Virgin" (150-54); Barbara D. Palmer, "Staging the Virgin's Body...

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