-------- Original Message -------- Subject: EMLS Special issues Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:48:02 -0700 From: Sean and Karine Lawrence <[log in to unmask]> EMLS is pleased to announce a double launch of two guest-edited Special Issues: Court culture 1642-1660, EMLS Special Issue 15 (September, 2007) edited by Jerome de Groot and Peter Sillitoe. The Long 1590s, EMLS 13.2/Special Issue 16 (September, 2007) edited by Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese Connolly. As usual, both collections are available for download free-to-air and without subscription from http://purl.org/emls. The contents are as follows: Court Culture * Introduction: Court culture in the 1640s and 1650s. [1] Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester) and Peter Sillitoe (University of Sheffield). * 'Hot and eager in courtship': representations of court life in the parliamentarian press, 1642-9. [2] Jason Peacey (University College London). * The Hague Courts of Elizabeth of Bohemia and Mary Stuart: Theatrical and Ceremonial Cultures. [3] Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham) and Ann Hughes (Keele University). * 'Tyer'd in her Banish'd dress': Henrietta Maria in exile. [4] Karen Britland (Keele University). * 'Long, dangerous and expensive journeys': the grooms of the bedchamber at Charles II's court in exile. [5] Geoffrey Smith (University of Melbourne). * Actors and the Court after 1642. [6] John Astington (University of Toronto). * 'Soveraigne Receipts' and the Politics of Beauty in The Queens Closet Opened. [7] Edith Snook (University of New Brunswick). The Long 1590s * Foreword. [1] Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University). * 'These latter days of the world': the Correspondence of Elizabeth I and James VI, 1590-1603. [2] Rayne Allinson, (Magdalen College, Oxford). * 'To Love and Be Wise': the Earl of Essex, Humanist Court Culture, and England's Learned Queen. [3] Linda Shenk (Iowa State University). * 'The representing of so strange a power in love': Philip Sidney's Legacy of Anti-factionalism. [4] Richard Wood (Sheffield Hallam University). * 'Et in Arcadia Ego': The Politics of Pirates in the Old Arcadia, New Arcadia and Urania. [5] Claire Jowitt (Nottingham Trent University). * 'You serued God he set you free': Self, Nation, and Celebration in the Wager-Voyaging Adventure of Richard Ferris. [6] Michael Manous (University of California, Riverside). * 'Resolve me of all ambiguities': Doctor Faustus and the Failure to Unify. [7] Andy Duxfield (Sheffield Hallam University). * '[I]ygging vaines' and 'riming mother wits': Marlowe, Clowns and the Early Frameworks of Dramatic Authorship. [8] Kirk Melnikoff (University of University of North Carolina at Charlotte). * Peele's David and Bethsabe: Reconsidering Biblical Drama of the Long 1590s. [9] Annaliese Connolly (Sheffield Hallam University). * The ' Turk Phenomenon' and the Repertory of the Late Elizabethan Playhouse. [10] Mark Hutchings (University of Reading). * To Sodomize a Nation: Edward II, Ireland, and the Threat of Penetration. [11] Marcie Bianco (Rutgers University). * Shakespeare and the Invention of the Heterosexual. [12] Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia). -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page