Articles:

• Article Abstracts / Résumés des Articles.
• 12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe. [1]. Steve Sohmer.
• Isabella Whitney's "Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith." [2]. Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick.
• "Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle. [3]. Emma Roth-Schwartz.

Note:

• Ambroise Paré's Des Monstres as a Possible Source for Caliban. [4]. Jeffrey Kahan.

Reviews:

• Patricia Parker. Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996. [5]. Mary Bly, Washington University, St. Louis.
• Chris Fitter. Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. [6]. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Pennsylvania State University.
• William S. Carroll. Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. [7]. Michael Long, Oriel College, Oxford University.
• Mark Breitenberg. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. [8]. Stephen Longstaffe, University College of St Martin.
• Hilary Hinds. God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996. [9]. Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato.
• Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill, eds. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Renaissance Texts and Studies. Keele, Staffordshire: Keele UP, 1996. [10]. Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia.
• David Lindley. The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James. New York: Routledge, 1993. [11]. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria.
• Lady Mary Wroth. Lady Mary Wroth: Poems. A Modernized Edition. R. E. Pritchard, ed. Keele, Staffordshire: Keele UP, 1996. [12]. Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky.
• S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. New York: Routledge, 1996. [13]. Patricia Ralston, Covenant College.
• Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews.

EMLS Special Issue Series 1 (April 1997): New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries: Applications of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database. Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, eds.

• Editorial Preface. [1]. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto, and Michael Best, University of Victoria.
  
  
• Article Abstracts / Résumés des Articles.
  
  
• "That purpose which is plain and easy to be understood": Using the Computer Database of Early Modern English Dictionaries to Resolve Problems in a Critical Edition of The Second Tome of Homilies (1563). [2]. Stephen Buick, University of Toronto.
• Renaissance Dictionaries and Shakespeare's Language: A Study of Word-meaning in Troilus and Cressida. [3]. Mark Catt, University of Toronto.
• Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English? [4]. Mary Catherine Davidson, University of Toronto.
• An English Renaissance Understanding of the Word "Tragedy," 1587-1616. [5]. Tanya Hagen, University of Toronto.
• Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD. [6]. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto.
• Reflections of an Electronic Scribe: Two Renaissance Dictionaries and Their Implicit Philosophies of Language. [7]. Jonathan Warren, University of Toronto.
• "A Double Spirit of Teaching": What Shakespeare's Teachers Teach Us. [8]. Patricia Winson, University of Toronto.

Readers' Forum:

Responses to articles, reviews, and notes appearing in this issue that are intended for the Readers' Forum may be sent to the Editor at emls@arts.ubc.ca.

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