Volume 26, Issues 1 and 2 (Double-Issue)
Articles
- Robin Runia, “‘The breeches are my own, henceforth I’le rant’: The Widdow Ranter and Cross-Dressed Politics”
- Hilary Havens, “‘Nothing can come of nothing’: Systems of Exchange in Tate’s King Lear“
- Jennifer Donahue, “Bringing the Other into View: Confronting the West Indian Creole in The Conscious Lovers and The West Indian“
- Anne Greenfield, “The Question of Marital Rape in Nicholas Rowe’s Tamerlane“
Theatre Reviews
- The London Merchant by George Lillo, directed by Peter Dobbins at the Theatre of the Church of Notre Dame.
Reviewed by Daniel Gustafson - Cardenio by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, re-imagined and directed by Gregory Doran at the Swan Theatre.
Reviewed by Brean S. Hammond - The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Directed by David Gately at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
Reviewed by Jennie Macdonald
Book Reviews
- Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790, by Daniel O’Quinn
Reviewed by Joseph Roach - The Works of William Congreve, edited by D. F. McKenzie
Reviewed by Brian Corman - “The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons,” National Portrait Gallery,
London, curated by Gill Perry and Lucy Peltz
The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, by Gill Perry, Joseph Roach,
and Shearer West
Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage, by David
Roberts
Reviewed by Jessica Munns - Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by
Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin
Women on the Stage in Early Modern France, 1540-1750, by Virginia Scott
Reviewed by Penny Richards - A Short History of Celebrity, by Fred Inglis
Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for
Image Making, by Laura Engel
Reviewed by Brian Bates - Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737: From Leviathan to
Licensing Act, edited by Catie Gill
Reviewed by Al Coppola - Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747, by Aparna Gollapudi
Reviewed by Tiffany Potter
