EARLY THEATRE has now posted the preliminary table of contents, abstracts, and short biographies for Volume 4 (2001); a few more items will be added over the next couple of months. To view the full listing, go to http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~reed/early We also have a new email address for subscription orders: [log in to unmask] Volume 4, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTICLES '"Arden winketh at his wife's lewdness, & why!": a patrilineal crisis in Arden of Faversham' Randall Martin "Patrons and Travelling Companies in Warwickshire" Elza Tiner '"The Precious Body of Christ That They Tretyn in Ther Hondis": "Miraclis Pleyinge" and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament' Heather Hill-Vasquez "Timing Theatrical Action in the English Medieval Theatre" Philip Butterworth '"Once More Unto the Breach": Katharine's Victory in Henry V' Corinne Abate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUES IN REVIEW To be announced -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK REVIEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John H. Astington, English Court Theatre 1558-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Reviewed by William Ingram. W. R. Elton, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and the Inns of Court Revels. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000. Reviewed by Peter Hyland. Jody Enders, The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1999. Reviewed by David Bevington. Clare Harraway, Re-citing Marlowe: Approaches to the Drama. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000. Reviewed by Judith Weil. Walter Hodges, Enter the Whole Army: A Pictorial Study of Shakespearean Staging, 1576-1616. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Reviewed by Roslyn Knutson. Michal Kobialka, This is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Reviewed by Lawrence Clopper. Linda McJannet, The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions: The Evolution of a Theatrical Code. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999. Reviewed by R. A. Foakes. Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth Maclean, The Queen's Men and their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed by A. R. Braunmuller. Mitchell B. Merback. The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Reviewed by Garrett Epp. John Southworth, Fools and Jesters at the English Court. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. Reviewed by Phebe Jensen.