VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 (JUNE 2004)

CONTENTS

Editorial - Jayne Archer and Sarah Knight

Article

Jean Wilson: 'Why Fotheringhay? The Location of the Trial and Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots'

Review Essay

Lawrence Manley: Review Essay: Lukas Erne’s Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist

Conference Reports

Christine Shaw: Study Day on the Landed Nobility and the City in Renaissance Europe, University of Warwick, 17 March 2004

Gabriel Heaton: Elizabethan Progresses Conference, the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 16 – 17 April 2004

Jonathan Davies: Medical Elites and Medical Practice in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy, University of Warwick, 30 April 2004

Book Reviews

Alessandro Arcangeli, Recreation in the Renaissance Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c. 1425-1675 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Marcie Frank, Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism: From Dryden to Manley (CUP, 2003)

Lauro Martines, April Blood, Florence and the Plot against the Medici (Jonathan Cape, 2003)

Caroline P. Murphy, Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna (Yale University Press, 2003)

Andrew Nash, ed., The Culture of Collected Editions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Gerard P. Sharpling, The Role of the Image in the Prose Writing of Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre and Montaigne (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003)