Shakespeare Studies

<P><I>Shakespeare Studies</I> is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles <I>Shakespeare Studies</I> offers opportunities for extended intellectual exchange through its thematically-focused forums and includes substantial reviews. An international Editorial Board maintains the quality of each volume so that <I>Shakespeare Studies</I> may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period – for research scholars and also for teachers actors and directors.</P><P>Volume 51 includes a Forum on the work of Michael D Bristol with contributions from J. F. Bernard Gail Kern Paster James Siemon Jill Ingram Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton Anna Lewton-Brain and Brooke Harvey Nicholas Utzig and Paul Yachnin. </P><P> Volume 51 includes articles from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America and essays by Laurence Senelick ("A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage") Christopher D'Addario ("Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson's <I>Epicoene</I> and <I>The Alchemist</I>") and Denise A. Walen ("Elbowing Katherine of Valois"). </P><P>Book reviews consider eleven important publications on liberty of speech and female voice; theaters of catastrophe; adaptations of <I>Macbeth</I>; staging touch in Shakespeare's England; the criticism of Hugh Grady; Shakespeare and World War II film; Shakespeare and digital pedagogy; Shakespeare and forgetting; Shakespeare and disability studies and Shakespeare's private life.</P><P></P>