REED scholars may be interested in the contents of Early Theatre’s most recent issue:

Editorial – open access at https://doi.org/10.12745/et.24.1.4832

• This Editorial summarizes changes to the journal's practices and policies in connection with equity-focused, antiracist conversations prompted in part by the RaceB4Race executive board’s June 2020 open letter calling for structural changes in scholarly publishing within medieval and early modern studies. It also announces the journal's 2021 essay prize winners. 

Articles 

“Hidden Music in Early Elizabethan Tragedy” by Ross W. Duffin http://muse.jhu.edu/article/798069 

“Katherine of Aragon’s Deathbed: Why Chapuys Brought A Fool” by Nadia T. van Pelt  

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798072 

“Shakespeare’s Statuary Women and the Indoor Theatre’s Discovery Space” by Myles O’Gorman and Bonnie Lander Johnson https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798070 

“Bad Blood, Black Desires: On the Fragility of Whiteness in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling” by Jamie Paris https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798071 

Note 

“Et dat alapam vita’: A Stage Direction in the Chester ‘Noah’s Flood’ by Peter Whiteford  

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798086 

Book Reviews 

Fabien Cavaillé, ed. and Richard Hillman, ed. and trans. Coriolan by Alexandre Hardy. Tours: Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2019. Pp 180. by Lucy Rayfield https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798082 

David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson, eds. The Works of John Webster, Vol. IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp 642. by José A. Pérez Díez https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798077 

David McInnis, ed. Old Fortunatus by Thomas Dekker. Manchester: Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays, 2020. Pp 253. by Emma Smith https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798083 

Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo, eds. Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp 278. by Jess Hamlet https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798078 

Rory Loughnane and Andrew Power, eds. Early Shakespeare 1588-1594. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp 336. by Benjamin Blyth https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798075 

Kirk Melnikoff and Roslyn Knutson, eds. Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp 313. by Laurie Maguire https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798079 

Tiffany Stern, ed. Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle, eds. Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. By Elizabeth E. Tavares https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798084 

Yasmin Arshad. Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp 337. by Cristina León Alfar https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798074 

Claire M.L. Bourne. Typographies of performance in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp 328. by Brandi K. Adams https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798073 

Andrew Bozio. Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp 240. by Randall Martin https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798080 

Lucy Munro. Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp 239. by Eoin Price https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798081 

Emma Whipday. Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp 262. by Lucy J.S. Clarke https://muse.jhu.edu/article/798076 

Please note: Early Theatre's distribution policy aligns with the UK Research Excellence Framework recommendations and Canadian TriCouncil requirements for open access. All articles, notes, and reviews published in Early Theatre become freely available to the public on earlytheatre.org after one year. For now, readers can access our most recent issue via their institutions (through ITER, Project Muse, JStor, or EBSCO) or via individual subscription. 

-The Editors (Melinda J. Gough, Sarah E. Johnson, Erin E. Kelly)