From the Editor

Two years have passed since the current editorial team—with Pascale Aebischer as General Editor, Roberta Barker and Paul Prescott as Performance Reviews Editors, and Kathryn Prince as Book Reviews Editor—took charge of SB. Since then, a lot has happened. We have started to publish more review essays, increased the number of special issues guest-edited by specialists in emerging and established research areas, and redesigned the cover of the journal. In 2014, we began to publish abstracts alongside articles on Project MUSE, making the journal more user-friendly and searchable. Now, we are taking this development further by working with our authors to supply abstracts, published on the SB website, for all articles published between 2006 and 2014 in a drive to bring research published in those years back into circulation.

In order to reach new audiences and ensure that we use a range of channels to publish research and animate debates centering on that research, the journal has now set up a Facebook page (facebook.com/ShaxBull) dedicated to disseminating calls for papers for special issues, news about conferences and events supported by the journal, abstracts, and previews of the tables of contents of forthcoming issues. The journal is also on Twitter as @ShaxBull and has begun to publish podcasts of interviews with special issue guest editors. You can listen to the first of these, an interview with Lucy Munro and Clare McManus, the guest editors of the Spring 2015 special issue on Renaissance Women’s Performance and the Dramatic Canon, at: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/podcasts/20150509.mp3.

Finally, in order to be able to accommodate a wider range of work on early modern drama in performance, we have begun to include sections in the journal that complement the standard sections of scholarly articles, performance reviews, and book reviews. In Summer 2014, we published a section of reviews of live digital relays guest-edited by Susanne Greenhalgh. In Winter 2014, we embedded Benjamin Hilb’s article on “Afro-Haitian-American Ritual Power: Vodou in the Welles-FTP Voodoo Macbeth” in a debate with the leading scholars with whose work his essay engaged. In Summer 2015, we published Alan Dessen’s “Of an Age But Not For All Time?: Staging Shakespeare’s Contemporaries at the Swan” as a “Performance Retrospective.” In the current issue, Mort Paterson’s “Stress and Rhythm in the Speaking of Shakespeare’s Verse: a Performer’s View” appears in a “Practitioner’s Forum” and is supplemented by a pod-cast that illustrates the prosodies he discusses. This flexibility allows us to publish critical interventions in range of appropriate formats.

SB’s editors actively welcome feedback, new ideas, and new submissions. You may contact the editors directly or engage with us via Twitter and Facebook.