*Early Theatre* 16.1 is forthcoming in June 2013. The journal is printed on paper and almost simultaneously online for subscribers. New subscribers are always welcome. See our website for information: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/ * Articles* The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men Tours in 1592 Chiaki Hanabusa ‘This place was made for pleasure not for death’: Performativity, Language, and Action in *The Spanish Tragedy* Alexandra S. Ferretti Shared Borders: The Puppet in Ben Jonson’s *Bartholomew Fair* Kristina E. Caton ‘Bound up and clasped together’: Bookbinding as Metaphor for Marriage in Richard Brome’s *The Love-Sick Court* Eleanor Lowe Accidents Happen: Roger Barnes’s 1612 Edition of Marlowe’s *Edward II* Mathew R. Martin Old Testament Adaptation in The Stonyhurst Pageants J. Case Tompkins *Note* Hornpipes and Disordered Dancing in *The Late Lancashire Witches*: A Reel Crux? Brett D. Hirsch *Review Essay* Defining Tudor Drama Kent Cartwright *Book Reviews* John H. Astington. *Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time: The Art of Stage Playing.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Reviewed by Eleanor Lowe Janette Dillon. *Shakespeare and the Staging of English History.* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Patrick J. Murray Christina M. Fitzgerald and John T. Sebastian (gen eds). *The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. *Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2013. Reviewed by Chester N. Scoville Charles R. Forker (ed.). *The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England. *Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Karen Oberer Katherine R. Larson. Early Modern Women in Conversation. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Sarah Johnson Christopher Marsh. *Music and Society in Early Modern England*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Reviewed by Katherine Hunt Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson (eds). *Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. *Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Reviewed by Yvonne Bruce Helen Smith. *Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England.* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Christina Luckyj Ayanna Thompson. *Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America.* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jami Rogers Alden T. & Virginia Mason Vaughan. *Shakespeare in America.* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Alan Andrews Martin Wiggins, in association with Catherine Richardson. *British Drama 1533–1642: A Catalogue. Volume I: 1533–1566.* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Peter Happé -- Dr H M Ostovich <[log in to unmask]> Editor, *Early Theatre* <http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/> Professor, English and Cultural Studies McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4L9 Canada