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• Summer 2011
  • Articles
    • 1. Dr. Sandra M. Hordis, Arcadia University:
      "His helm tohewen was in twenty place": Reconstructing Troilus
    • 2. Dr. Frank Brevik / Jessica White, LaGrange Col.: "Teaching The Tempest in an American-Adamic Context: The New World Orthodoxy as Multicultural Pedagogy"
  • Short Essays: Teaching Non-Traditional Text
    • 1. Dr. Barbara A Goodman, Clayton State Univ.: "Teaching the Testament of Cresseid: Contemporary Issues in a Medieval Context"
  • Book Reviews
    • 1. Dr. Bente Videbaek, SUNY Stony Brook:
      "A Lifetime With Shakespeare: Notes From An American Director of All 38 Plays by Paul Barry"
    • 2. Dr. Harley Sims, Independent Scholar:
      "Old English Liturgical Verse: A Student Edition, Edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer"
• Summer 2010
  • Articles
    • 1. Dr. June Waudby, University of Hull: “Contextualising Vittoria: Subjectivity and Censure in The White Devil"
    • 2. Dr. Mary Villeponteaux, Georgia Southern U.: "Angry Shrews or Merry Wives? Teaching Shakespeare's Women"
    • 3. Dr. Louise Geddes, Dominican College:
      "Sacred Blood and the Body's Rich Legacy in Julius Caesar"
    • 4. Dr. Michael Boecherer, Suffolk Comm. College: "Lessons Learned From Killing Caesar" or "How to Involve Your Students, and Slay Your Audience, While They Slay You"
  • Short Essays: Teaching Non-Traditional Text
    • 1. Dr. Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College:
      "The Fair Maid of the Exchange, Thomas Heywood, 1607"
    • 2. Dr. John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ.:
      "In Praise of the Saints: Introducing Hagiography Into the British Literature Survey"
    • 3. Dr. Denise Walen, Vassar College:
      "Theatrical Politics and Political Theatricality in Massinger's The Roman Actor"
  • Book Reviews
    • 1. Dr. Susan Crane-Laracuente, Newman State U.: "Medieval English and French Legends: An Anthology of Religious and Secular Narrative by R. Barton Palmer"
    • 2. Dr. Audrey DeLong, Suffolk Comm. Col.:
      "The Masculine Self In Late Medieval England, by Derek G. Neal"
    • 3. Mickey Casper, Independent Scholar:
      "Sir Philip Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry and Astrophil and Stella: Texts and Contexts, Edited by Peter C. Herman"
• Winter 2010
  • Articles
    • 1. Dr. Bente Videbaek, SUNY Stony Brook:
      “'To Be, or not to Be': The Soliloquy Redefined"
    • 2. Dr. Audrey DeLong, Suffolk Comm. Col.:
      "A Call to Arms: A New Look at the Clermont Address"
    • 3. Micky Casper, Independent Scholar:
      "The Protestant Refashioning of Saint George in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene"
    • 4. Nicole Garret, SUNY Stony Brook:
      "Drama and Dyscrasia in Denmark: Hamlet as Female Prince"
    • 5. Brian Andrew, Independent Scholar:
      "The Importance of the Female Conduct Book in John Milton's Comus"
    • 6. Nettie Jensen, Independent Scholar:
      "Feste and Lear's Fool: Different Genres, Same Function"
  • Book Reviews
    • 1. Dr. Michael Boecherer, Suffolk Comm. College: "Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth by Maria L. Howell"
    • 2. Joseph L. Kelly, Georgia State University: "Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer by Andrew Cole"
    • 3. Dr. Glenda Gill, Michigan Tech. University: "Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, Edited by Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Winter 2011~

Articles

1. "I moot speke as I kan": The Squire's Optimistic Attempt to Circumvent Rhetorical "Following" in The Canterbury Tales
   by Kristen Abbott Bennett, Tufts University


2. "Teaching Romeo and Juliet in and against Modern Popular Culture"
   by Dr. Charles Conaway, University of Southern Indiana


3. "My Rest is Lost; Thou Must Restore it Again": Reintroducing Renaissance Revenge Tragedies Into the Current Colloquium
   by Samantha Karasik, State University of New York - Stony Brook

Short Essays: Teaching Non-Traditional Text

1. "The Case for the Duchess: Teaching Webster’s Duchess of Malfi in Undergraduate English Classes"
   by Dr. Darlene Farabee, The University of South Dakota


2. "Teaching Preston's Cambises in the Undergraduate Classroom" by Shiladitya Sen, Temple University

Book Reviews

1. Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments: From George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson by Gabriel Heaton
   Reviewer: Jillian Logan, University of South Dakota

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