Shakespeare Studies

Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

• Preface: Sustaining Shakespeare Studies Amidst Transitions and TumultDiana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USFORUM: In Honor of Bruce R. SmithIntroduction: Phenomenal BruceHeather James, Forum Editor, University of Southern California, USA Scholarly Biography: 1946-2024 Katherine Rowe, The College of William and Mary, USA Re-view of Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s EnglandJeffrey Masten, Northwestern University, USQueer Phenomenology and The Night-WalkerScott Trudell, University of Maryland, US“Were I human”: Ecologies of Listening in The TempestEvelyn Tribble, University of Connecticut, USThe Play of the Voice: Reading Bruce Smith’s ShakespeareAmanda K. Ruud, Valparaiso University, USEmbodying Song: Words, Music and Sensory ExperienceKatie Bank (University of Birmingham, UK) and Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Shakespearean Acoustics: a footnote in memory of Bruce SmithStephen Orgel, Stanford University, USFace-to-Face with London’s Tomb Sculptures, 1558–1633Lena Orlin, Georgetown University, USARTICLESPossible Evidence for the Early Influence of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Robert Peake’s Portrait of Edward Grimston Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield, UKThe Wars of Love’s Labour’s Lost: Performance and InterpretationWilliam Carroll, Boston University, USIn a Berowne Study: Daydreaming in Love’s Labour’s Lost and of Love’s Labour’s WonScott Maisano, University of Massachusetts Boston, US“Nothing, my lord”: A pun, King Lear, and a Defense of RhetoricXing Chen, Nanjing University, ChinaINTERVENTIONS Anne’s World: New Conversations About Anne ShakespearePaul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK), Chris Laoutaris (University of Birmingham, UK), Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, US), Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota, US)NEXT GENERATION PLENARYThe Queer End(s) of Love’s Labor’s LostMargo Kolenda-MasonVery Small Trouble: A Creative-Critical Exploration of Early Modern Women and Festive PerformanceEvelyn ReedyEEBO-TCP, Labor, and the Narratives of Textual ProductionMargaret C. MaurerHow to Get Bloody on the Early Modern StagePatrick DurdelREVIEWS Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya SarkarWendy Beth Hymanb. Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty by Joseph CampanaWilliam C. CarrollGlobalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage by Jane Hwang DegenhardtRadhika KoulEntertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response by Lauren RobertsonEllen MacKaySex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity by Joseph GambleCorey McEleneyShakespeare and the Law by Gary WattMichael Lind MennaAnthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage by William H. SteffanBernadette MyersShakespeare’s Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade by Ben HigginsHelen Smith