Gli articoli di questo numero si basano sull'analisi di fonti di prima mano: dal testamento di Simon Jewell che illustra le condizioni materiali e la vita di una troupe alla fine del XVI secolo; a nuove ricerche su The Spanish Tragedy di Kyd e Bartholomew Fair di Jonson; a connessioni linguistiche fra corpi, abiti, libri in Shakespeare, Middleton, Fletcher e Dekker. Si segnalano l'edizione critica 1612 dell'Edward II di Marlowe, confrontata con le precedenti alla luce delle controversie giacobite; infine The Stonyhurst Pageants,  serie di commedie del XVII secolo troppo a lungo neglette, suggerisce connessioni col dramma biblico.

Il prossimo numero in edizione cartacea (dicembre 2013) dal titolo New Approaches to Early Tudor Drama  verterà su testi e spettacoli a partire dalla prima metà del XVII secolo.

Per l'edizione digitale, a cura del Department of English and Cultural Studies, Mc Master University e del Social Sciences and Humanities Reasearch Council of Canada:

http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES

The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen's Men Tours in 1592. By Chiaki Hanabusa

‘This place was made for pleasure not for death': Performativity, Language, and Action in The Spanish Tragedy. By Alexandra S.Ferretti

Shared Borders: The Puppet in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair. By Kristina E. Caton

‘Bound up and clasped together': Bookbinding as Metaphor for Marriage in Richard Brome's The Love-Sick Court. By Eleanor Lowe

Accidents Happen: Roger Barnes's 1612 Edition of Marlowe's Edward II. By Mathew R. Martin

Old Testament Adaptation in The Stonyhurst Pageants. By J.Case Tompkins

NOTE

Hornpipes and Disordered Dancing in The Late Lancashire Witches: A Reel Crux?By Brett D. Hirsch

REVIEW ESSAY

Defining Tudor Drama. By Kent Cartwright

BOOK REVIEWS

John H. Astington. Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time: The Art of Stage Playing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Reviewed by Eleanor Lowe

Janette Dillon. Shakespeare and the Staging of English History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Patrick J. Murray

Christina M. Fitzgerald and John T. Sebastian  (gen eds). The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2013. Reviewed by Chester N. Scoville

Charles R. Forker (ed.). The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Karen Oberer

Katherine R. Larson. Early Modern Women in Conversation. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Sarah Johnson

Christopher Marsh. Music and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Reviewed by Katherine Hunt

Kathrin M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson (eds). Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Reviewed by Yvonne Bruce

Helen Smith. Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Christina Luckyj

Ayanna Thompson. Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jami Rogers

Alden T. & Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Alan Andrews

Martin Wiggins, in associacion with Catherine Richardson.  British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume I: 1533-1566. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Peter Happé

                                                                                    [di Michela Zaccaria]