Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring work by 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, Shakespeare Studies offers unique 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 Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period - for research scholars as well as teachers, actors and directors. Volume 52 includes a Forum devoted the "Second Acts" of Shakespeare scholars with contributions from Mary Thomas Crane, Ayanna Thompson, Emily C. Bartels, Carla Della Gatta, Mary Jo Kietzman, Gina Bloom, Kevin Windhauser, Brinda Charry, Andrew J. Hartley, and Emma Whipday. Volume 52 includes contributions from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America as well as articles by Kinga Foeldvary ("From Melodrama to Tragedy and Back - Closing the Melodramatic Gap between Bollywood and Hollywood Shakespeare Adaptations"), Laura Higgins ("Locating Herself, Finding Her Voice: Mapping the Queen's Story in Shakespeare's Richard II"), Wesley Kisting ("The Theater of Conscience: Reforming Punishment in Measure for Measure"), Wolfgang G. Mueller ("The Political Philosophies of Brutus and Cassius in Julius Caesar and the Theory of Preventive Tyrannicide"), and Greg M. Colon Semenza ("'Please, just no Shakespeare': Station Eleven's Utopian Economy of Cultural Distinction"). Book reviews consider important publications on Shakespeare and university drama; Shakespeare and race; textual studies, editing and performance; poetry, science and the sublime; and entertaining uncertainty in early modern theater.
James R. Siemon is professor of English at Boston University. Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at MIT.
Forum: Shakespearean Second Acts Introduction Mary Thomas Crane Shakespearean? Second Act? Ayanna Thompson Reimagining Education Emily C. Bartels Wrighting Theater History Carla Della Gatta No Book But the World Mary Jo Kietzman Career Moves in an Academic Game Gina Bloom What's Shakespeare to the Prison, and What's the Prison to Shakespeare?: Wrestling with the Value of Shakespeare Behind Bars Kevin Windhauser "To double business bound" - On being a Shakespearean and a Writer of Fiction Brinda Charry "Perchance to Dream..." Andrew J. Hartley Shakespearean Double Lives Emma Whipday Introduction: Next Generation Plenary "We keep doing this don't we?": Disrupting Racial Trauma in Performances of Harlem Duet Rebecca Hixon A Discursive 'She': The [Mis]Prints and Possibilities of Emilia in Shakespeare's Othello Lindsay Adams Kennedy Personating Animals on the Early Modern Stage Chris Klippenstein Discharging Rafe: Protean Performance in The Knight of the Burning Pestle Emily McLeod Articles From Melodrama to Tragedy and Back - Closing the Melodramatic Gap between Bollywood and Hollywood Shakespeare Adaptations Kinga Foeldvary Locating Herself, Finding Her Voice: Mapping the Queen's Story in Shakespeare's Richard II Laura Higgins The Theater of Conscience: Reforming Punishment in Measure for Measure Wesley Kisting The Political Philosophies of Brutus and Cassius in Julius Caesar and the Theory of Preventive Tyrannicide Wolfgang G. Mueller "Please, just no Shakespeare": Station Eleven's Utopian Economy of Cultural Distinction Greg M. Colon Semenza Reviews Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England By Daniel Blank Reviewer: Emily D. Bryan Shakespeare / Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance Edited by Claire M. L. Bourne Reviewer: Paul Werstine The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime By Jenny C. Mann Reviewers: Marjorie Rubright and Stephen Spiess Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater By Lauren Robertson Reviewer: William N. West The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race Edited by Ayanna Thompson Reviewer: Jean E. Howard
