SHAKSPER Book Reviews

SBReviews is a peer-reviewed collection of reviews. SBReviews is operated by the SHAKSPER Book Review Panel (Biographies of Panel Members are below).

SBReview_1:

Elena Levy-Navarro. The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60123-9; xi + 238 pp. US$74.95.

Reviewed by Arthur Lindley, Institute for Advanced Research, University of Birmingham

SBReview_1 initially appeared on January 29, 2009, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 20.0031 <http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2009/0029.html> and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_2:

Scott L. Newstok, editor. Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare. West Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-60235-002-1; lv + 308 pp. US$32.00.

Reviewed by Murray M. Schwartz, Professor, Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing, Emerson College

SBReview_2 initially appeared on January 29, 2009, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 20.0032 <http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2009/0030.html> and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_3:

Gothic Shakespeares. Edited by John Drakakis and Dale Townshend. General editor, Terrence Hawkes. _Accents on Shakespeare Series_. New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-42067-9; 264 p. US$39.95.

Reviewed by Peter Paolucci, York University

SBReview_3 initially appeared on April 2, 2009, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 20.0153 < http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2009/0151.html> and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_4:

Margreta de Grazia. Hamlet without Hamlet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Reviewed by David Richman, University of New Hampshire

SBReview_4 initially appeared on July 14, 2009, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 20.0371 < http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2009/0371.htmland is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_5:

Lesel Dawson. Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Reviewed by Eric Langley, University College London.

SBReview_5 initially appeared on October 29, 2009, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 20.0540 http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2009/0539.html and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_6:

Samuel Crowl. Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0393927658; xxv + 238pp. US$27.50.

Reviewed by Caroline Gaddy, James Madison University, The Shakespeare Standard.

SBReview_6 initially appeared on July 10, 2010, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 21.0268 http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2010/0275.html and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_7:

The New Kittredge Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Ed. Sarah Hatchuel. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. ISBN-10: 1585102601. ISBN-13: 978-1585102600. 144 pp. US$8.95.

Reviewed by Alisha Huber, Mary Baldwin College.

SBReview_7 initially appeared on July 10, 2010, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 21.0269 http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2010/0276.html and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_8:

Bruce R. Smith. Phenomenal Shakespeare (Blackwell Manifestos). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0631235484; 232 pp. US$84.95. Paperback: ISBN-10: 0631235485; US$29.95. Kindle: US$26.96.

Reviewed by James Mainard O'Connell, Assistant Technical Director/Shop Foreman, Columbia University.

SBReview_8 initially appeared on July 10, 2010, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 21.0270 http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2010/0277.html and is also available as a PDF file.

SBReview_9:

David Schalkwyk. Shakespeare, Love, and Service. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9780521886390. Pp. x + 317. U.S. $93.

Reviewed by David Evett, Professor Emeritus, Cleveland State University.

SBReview_9 initially appeared on July 10, 2010, in SHAKSPER digest SHK 21.0271 http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2010/0278.html and is also available as a PDF file.

The SHAKSPER Book Review Panel Members

Hardy M. Cook, Professor Emeritus at Bowie State University, has authored dozens of papers on subjects ranging from Shakespeare on television to the editing of electronic texts. He is the owner/editor/moderator of SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference, now in its twentieth-first year of service to the Shakespeare academic community. He is co-editor with Ian Lancashire of Shake-speares Sonnets and Louers Complaint 1609 and editor of an electronic edition of Venus and Adonis, a part of the edition of Shakespeare's Poems he is preparing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions and Broadview Press. For his work with SHAKSPER and his other scholarly activities, Dr. Cook received the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Scholarship/Research/Creative Activities in April of 1999.

Jeremy Friebig is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Fayetteville State University, and a graduate of the Mary Baldwin College/American Shakespeare Center program in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance. He served as Assistant Director and Stage Manager for the American Shakespeare Center's 2006 Resident Troupe season including productions of As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest with director Giles Block, and Othello. He has directed Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, True West, Peer Gynt, Godspell, The Importance of Being Earnest, Yasmina Reza's Art, The Tempest (ASC's Young Company), and others. Jeremy has performed in nearly 40 productions in the past decade. Highlights include Claudius in Hamlet, the title role in King John, Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost, Malcolm and Duncan in Macbeth, Antony in Sweeney Todd, and many others. Jeremy is a four-time Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan nominee and an Equity Member Candidate.

Arthur Lindley is currently an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research at the University of Birmingham (UK), having previously taught for many years at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse (Delaware, 1996), a study of carnival and privative evil in early modern English literature, including Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including ELH, PMLA, JEGP, Exemplaria, and MLR. He is currently writing a book on religious doctrine and the grotesque in Jacobean drama. An offshoot of that project is a forthcoming study of the role of intimacy in Elizabethan and Stuart revenge drama. His other research areas are late medieval English literature and film studies.

Murray M. Schwartz received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964 and has since then been a faculty member at SUNY/Buffalo, UMass/Amherst, Claremont Graduate University and, currently, Emerson College in Boston. He has held appointments in English, Comparative Literature, Psychology and Psychiatry Departments. He was also a Dean, Provost, or Academic Vice President at these institutions for twenty-five years. He has conducted NEH summer seminars, in Shakespeare and in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Criticism. His interdisciplinary interests have included Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and literary theory. He has co-edited two anthologies, Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays, with Coppelia Kahn (Johns Hopkins, 1980) and Memory and Desire: Aging, Literature, Psychoanalysis, with Kathleen Woodward (Indiana, 1983). He has written many essays, on Shakespeare.s Romances, King Richard II, Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis, D. H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Trauma Theory and other subjects. With Norman N. Holland, he has recently published Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars (online at http://lulu.com). He co-edits the online journal PsyArt and is President of The PsyArt Foundation (http://psyart.org). He was a research scholar at Harvard University from 2005-2007. He is a member of the Psychoanalytic Historiography Group sponsored by the Freud Archives in New York. He is a scholar member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and teaches Shakespeare, Holocaust Literature, and Literature of Extreme Situations at Emerson College. He is currently completing a book on the African-American dancer and anthropologist Pearl Primus with his wife, Peggy Schwartz, and co-editing a collection of papers from the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology in Belgrade, 2007.

Peter Paolucci has literary specializations in the fields of the Renaissance, horror literature, and quantitative stylistics. He is former the Coordinator for the Professional Writing Program at York University. Dr. Paolucci has also taught theory and practice of interface design to senior undergraduate Computer Science students and was the co-recipient of grant money from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to research ways of improving the delivery of medical and dental instruction through videoconferencing. For the past fifteen years, he has been a faculty development advisor in technology and pedagogy for the universities of Ottawa, Guelph, Trent, and York, and for the community colleges in southwestern Ontario. Peter.s current research (The Shakespeare XML Project <http://www.shakespearexml.ca/>) involves the use of Web 2.0-related technologies to create online editions of Shakespeare that are infinitely unique and continuously changing.

Martin Mueller was educated at the Universities of Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Trinity College, Dublin, and Indiana University, where he got a PhD in Classics (1966). He taught at Brandeis University (1965-67) and the University of Toronto (1967-76) before moving to Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1976. At Northwestern, he has held various administrative positions, including Director of Comparative Literature (1976-81), Director of the Humanities Program (1979-81), Chair of the English Department (1983-90), and Acting Chair of Hispanic Studies (1997-99).

Mark G. Aune finished his PhD at Wayne State University, worked at North Dakota State University for several years, and currently is an assistant professor in the English Department at California University of Pennsylvania. He divides his research into two streams, one involves Shakespeare and includes performance, film, and popular culture; the other explores modern and early modern travel writing and visual culture. His articles and reviews have appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Early Modern Literary Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Theatre Journal, and Sixteenth-Century Journal.