VOLUME 1 NUMBER 7 (JANUARY 2003)

CONTENTS

Editorial - J. R. Mulryne

Articles

R. J. Knecht (Birmingham): New Light on the Reign of Francis I

Beat Kümin (Warwick): ‘Run by the poor for the poor’? Social Elites in the Early Modern Public House

Julian Pooley (Nichols Archives Project): ‘Very Various and Useful Labours’: The Papers of the Nichols Family as a Source for the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth and King James I

Book Reviews

Simon Barker and Hilary Kinds, eds., The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama (London: Routledge, 2003); David Bevington with Lars Engle, Katherine Eisaman Maus and Eric Rasmussen, eds. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2002) - J.R.Mulryne

Alan Dessen, Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) - David Bevington

M. Lindsay Kaplan, The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) - Bernard Capp

Robert J. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France 1483-1610, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001) - Kevin Gould

Linda C. Mitchell, Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001) - Sarah Knight

J. R. Mulryne and Elizabeth Goldring, eds, Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2002) - Margaret Shewring

Antonio Pinelli, ed., Roma del Rinascimento (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2001) - Christine Shaw

Marie-France Wagner and Daniel Vaillancourt, eds., Le Roi dans la Ville. Anthologie des entrées royales dans les villes françaises de province (1515-1660) (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001) - R. J. Knecht