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Dear colleagues: In celebration of *Early Theatre*'s twentieth birthday, I am pleased to announce the publication of volume 20 issue 2 (Dec. 2017), which includes several articles and Issues in Review forum essays of particular interest for feminist scholars. *Early Theatre 20.2 Table of Contents* Editorial *Helen Ostovich, Melinda J. Gough, Erin Kelly* Articles The Salting Down of Gertrude: Transgression and Preservation in Three Early German Carnival Plays *Stephen K. Wright * The Physician and His Servant in the Croxton *Play of the Sacrament * *Jillian Linster* Rape, Massacre, the Lucrece Tradition, and *Alarum for London * *Georgina Lucas * *Sejanus*, the King’s Men Altar Scenes, and the Theatrical Production of Paganism *John Kuhn * ‘[*Overhearing*]’: Printing Parentheses and Reading Power in Ben Jonson’s *Sejanus * *Ian Burrows * Note Much Virtue in *O-Oh*: A Case Study *Alan C. Dessen * Issues In Review: Beaumont400 *(Lucy Munro, contributing editor) * Introduction: Beaumont400 *Lucy Munro * Beaumont’s Lives *Lucy Munro * ‘The Grocers Honour’: or, Taking the City Seriously in *The Knight of the Burning Pestle * *Tracey Hill * Reading Performance, Reading Gender: Early Encounters with Beaumont and Fletcher’s *The Scornful Lady *in Print *Simon Smith * The Future Francis Beaumont *Eoin Price * Sincerely, Helen 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/>> Series Editor, Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama https://www.routledge.com/performance/series/SPEMD Series Editor, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama ( https://mip-archumanitiespress.org/series/mip/late-tudor-stuart-drama/) Professor Emerita, English and Cultural Studies McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4L9 Canada