Reboot of the SHAKSPER Book Reviews (SBReviews)

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.457  Friday, 9 October 2015

From:        Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         Friday, October 9, 2015

Subject:    Reboot of the SHAKSPER Book Reviews (SBReviews)

This Newsletter is a very special one; it marks the reboot of the SHAKSPER Book Reviews (SBReviews) under the editorship of Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University and Associate Editor of SHAKSPER. 

We have a treat for readers today: three reviews of new Shakespeare books.

It is only appropriate that we will begin with Professor Castaldo’s own review of recent scholarship in the field of women writers of the early modern period. The works considered are Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit, eds., The History of British Women’s Writing 1500-1610, The History of British Women’s Writing, Volume 2 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010); Michelle M. Dowd and Thomas Festa, eds., Early Modern Women on the Fall: An Anthology (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012); Susan Frye, Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010); Elizabeth Hodgson, Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Laura Lunger Knopopers, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Next, we have Kirk McElhearn’s review of Antony Sher’s Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries (London: Nick Hern Books, 2015).

Finally, we have Peter Hyland’s review of William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare Made in Canada, General Editor Daniel Fischlin (Oakville, ON: Rock Mills Press, 2015).

All SBReviews peer-reviewed and are archived at the SHAKSPER web site’s Scholarly Resources section: http://shaksper.net/scholarly-resources/book-reviews in book-quality PDF files.

If you are interested in suggesting a possible book for review or if you are interested in reviewing yourself, please contact Annalisa Castaldo at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and please also copy me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

I hope you enjoy these reviews, and I look forward to seeing more in the future.

Best wishes,

Hardy M. Cook

Editor of SHAKSPER

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