Here is the table of contents for Early Theatre 4. The abstracts are on-line at http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~reed/early -- just click on VOLUMES. We are asking all subscribers to renew as soon as possible. We are in a transition period between publishers, and would appreciate early renewals to help us get the journal into timely production for late fall mailing. Inquiries about subscriptions should be addressed to: [log in to unmask] EARLY THEATRE 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 '"Daniel Rabel and the Grotesque" John Astington ISSUES IN REVIEW Reading Acting Companies Scott McMillin, Lawrence Manley, Roslyn Knutson, Mark Bayer 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. Helen Ostovich Editor, EARLY THEATRE / Dept of English CNH-321 McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L9 (905)525-9140 x24496 FAX (905)777-8316 http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~reed/early