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Dear Colleagues, The latest issue of *Early Theatre* will be released in December 2014. Our new website is <http://earlytheatre.org/ <http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/>>, with only the most recent two years' subscription behind a moving wall. The other volumes, from 1 (1998) to 15 (2012) are freely searchable and available for downloads online in pdf format. *Current issue:* Editorial (by the editors) Epitaph: Lawrence Clopper (by Alexandra Johnston) *ARTICLES* Hocus Pocus and the Croxton *Play of the Sacrament* (by Cameron Hunt Macnabb) 'To all kinde of estates I meane for to trudge': Making room for commoners in *Cambises* (by Maya Mathur) The Appearance of Blacks on the Early Modern Stage: *Love's Labour's Lost*'s African Connections to Court (by Matthieu Chapman) Inferior Readings: The Transmigration of 'material' in *Tamburlaine the Great* (by Mathew Martin) Ben Jonson's Eloquent Nonsense: the Ordeal of Heard Meanings on the Early Modern Stage (1609-1614) (by Hristomir A. Stanev) *ISSUES IN REVIEW* New Approaches to Thomas Heywood Contributing Editor: Grace Ioppolo Introduction: Entire Hands and Main Fingers (by Grace Ioppolo) Thomas Heywood: Just in time (by Grace Ioppolo) 'Stolne and surreptitious': Heywood as a Test Case (by William Proctor Williams) Playhouse Shadows: the Manuscript Behind *Dick of Devonshire* (by William B. Long) Best wishes, Dr H M Ostovich <[log in to unmask]> http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~english/Faculty/Ostovich.html Founding Editor, *Early Theatre* <http://earlytheatre.org/ <http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/>> Professor Emeritus, English and Cultural Studies McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4L9 Canada