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Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the launch of its May issue, a special issue on Shakespeare on Screen, edited by Lisa Hopkins with Michael Best and R.G.Siemens. It contains articles on 'Shakespeare on Screen: Threshold Aesthetics in Oliver Parker's Othello' (Patricia Dorval, Universite Paul Valery), 'Making Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of "Reading Psychoanalysis Into" Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet' (Courtney Lehmann, University of the Pacific, with Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida), and 'Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet' (Sarah Hatchuel, University of Paris IV Sorbonne); 'Shakespeare on Television: A Bibliography of Criticism' (Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez, University of Malaga); interviews with Russell Jackson and with Kenneth Rothwell (Darren Kerr, De Montfort University); reviews of the Almereyda Hamlet (Ann Thompson, King's College, London) and of the Branagh Love's Labour's Lost (Debra Tuckett, Sheffield Hallam University); and the usual complement of book reviews. Interactive Early Modern Literary Studies's series of reviews of electronic resources continues with evaluations of i) the English Short Title Catalogue, ii) Chadwyck-Healey's Bible Editions database, and iii) the Brown Women's Writing Project and the Perdita Project. As usual the issue is available free online at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Dr Lisa Hopkins Senior Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html