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Review Essay: Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things And Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology, Richard G. Barlow

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Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xv + 142 pp, appendixes, works cited, index. $24.50.

Adelman, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare's works, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide And Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, David Bornstein

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Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide during the Renaissance. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 142 pp. $24.95.

Review Essay: Wickram, Jörg. The Golden Thread [Der Goldfaden], Ronald W. Walker

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Wickram, Jörg. The Golden Thread [Der Goldfaden]. Trans Pierre Kaufke. University of West Florida Press, Gainsville 1991. xv + 167 pp, bib. $24.95.

Review Essay: Kastan, David Scott, And Peter Stallybrass, Edd. Staging The Renaissance: Reinterpretation Of Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama, Mac Groves

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Kastan, David Scott, and Peter Stallybrass, edd. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretation of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Routledge, London 1991. 293 pp. $45.00 / $14.95.

Review Essay: Mcintosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor And Liberty Of Haverings, 1500-1620, Wm. Kent Hackmann

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McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500-1620. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. 489 pp. $74.95.

Review Essay: Hardin, Richard F. Civil Idolatry: Desacralizing And Monarch In Spenser, Shakespeare, And Milton, Jean R. Brink

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Gajowski, Evelyn. The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies. University of Delaware Press, Newark 1992. 153 pp. $32.50.

Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies, is reviewed on pp 182.

Hardin, Richard F. Civil Idolatry: Desacralizing and Monarch in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. University of Delaware Press, Newark 1992; Associated University Presses, London and Toronto 1992. 267 pp. $39.50.

Review Essay: Sommerville, John C. The Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England, Daniel W. O'Bryan

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Sommerville, John C. The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1992. 211 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Ashley, Kathleen, And Pamela Sheingorn, Edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne In Late Medieval Society, Susan Stakel

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Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn, edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1990. 243 pp. $30.00 / $15.00.

Blumenfeld-Kozinski, Renate, ed. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. 315 pp. $41.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Poly, Jean-Pierre, And Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200, Francis X. Hartigan

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Poly, Jean-Pierre, and Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200. Trans Caroline Higgitt. Holmes and Meier, New York 1991. 404 pp. $42.95.

Review Essay: Duplessis, Robert S. Lille And The Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability In An Era Of Revolution, 1550-1582, Kelly Devries

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DuPlessis, Robert S. Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. xv + 372 pp. $69.95.

Review Essay: Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi For Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading, Charles R. Smith

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Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 1991. x + 238 pp. $34.95 / $17.95.

Review Essay: Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor Di Virtù: Commedia In Cinque Atti, 1548, Robert M. Johnston

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Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor di virtù: Commedia in cinque atti, 1548. Ed Elissa Weaver. Longo Editore, Ravenna 1990. 286 pp.

Review Essay: Robert Levine, Trans., France Before Charlemagne: A Translation From The Grandes Chroniques, Harry Rosenberg

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Robert Levine, trans., France before Charlemagne: A Translation from the Grandes Chroniques, Studies in French Civilization 3, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 287 pp., $89.95.

Review Essay: R. Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline In The Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750, J. B. Owens

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R. Po-chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750, Routledge, 1989, 218 pp., biblio., index, $44.00.

Review Essay: J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion Of Europe, De Lamar Jensen

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J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion of Europe, Oxford University Press, 1988, 320 pp., maps, biblio., $15.95.

Review Essay: A. L. Brown, The Governance Of Late Medieval England 1272-1461, Kenneth G. Madison

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A. L. Brown, The Governance of Late Medieval England 1272-1462, Governance of England 3, Stanford University Press, 1989, viii, 248 pp., index, $32.50.

Review Essay: Michael A. Hicks, Ed., Profit, Piety And The Professions In Later Medieval England, Stephanie Christelow

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Michael A. Hicks, ed., Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xxii, 170 pp., biblio., index, $30.00

Review Essay: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Trans., The Writings Of Margaret Of Oingt: Medieval Prioress And Mystic (D. 1310), Joan M. West

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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, trans., The Writings of Margaret of Oingt: Medieval Priooress and Mystic (D. 1310), Focus Library of Medieval Women 2, Focus Information Group, 1990, 86 pp., $8.95.

Review Essay: Judith Berg Sobre, Behind The Altar Table: The Development Of The Painted Retable In Span, 1350-1500, John F. Moffitt

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Judith Berg Sobre, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350-1500, University of Missouri Preess, 1989, 384 pp., ill., biblio., index, $55.00.

Review Essay: John C. Briggs, Francis Bacon And The Rhetoric Of Nature, Thomas Willard

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John C. Briggs, Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature, Harvard University PRess, 1989, xii, 285 pp., $35.00.

Review Essay: William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet Of The Early Roman Baroque, Frede Jensen

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William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet of the Early Roman Baroque, Studies in Renaissance Literature 3, Edwin Mellen Preess, 1990, iv, 379 pp., ill., $109.95 (library binding).

Review Essay: Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale And Theories Of Scholastic Psychology, Charles R. Smith

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Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology, University of South Florida Press, 1990, xviii, 376 pp., ill., biblio., index, $36.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency Of Eros: Women's Love Lyric In Europe, 1540-1620, Deborah N. Losse

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Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620, Indiana University Press, 1990, ix, 242 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

Review Essay: Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography Of Modern Criticism And Scholarship, De Lamar Jensen

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Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism and Scholarship, Greenwood Press, 1990, 824 pp., $89.50.

Review Essay: Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrance: A Study Of "The Pilgrimage Of The Life Of Man" As A Medieval Treatise On Seeing And Remembering, Glenn W. Olsen

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Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrance: A Study of "The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man" as a Medieval Treatise on Seeing and Remembering, University of Georgia Press, 1990, xii, 268 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: John B. Gleason, John Colet, Norman L. Jones

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John B. Gleason, John Colet, University of California Press, 1989, 416 pp., $50.00.

Review Essay: Timothy Verdon And John Henderson, Eds., Christianity And Renaissance: Image And Religious Imagination In The Quattrocento, Edward J. Olszewski

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Timothy Verdon and John Henderson, eds., Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xix, 611 pp., ill., $55.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Richard M. Wunderli

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Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Clarendon Press, 1989, xvii, 425 pp., ill., fig., tables, app., biblio., index, $84.00.

Review Essay: Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise On Lovesickness, William Klein

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Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise on Lovesickness, trans. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xvi, 709 pp., biblio., index, $49.95.