Dear all,
Members may be interested in the contents of Early Theatre’s most recent issue (28.2, December 2025). The full issue is available via immediate open access on Project Muse.
Editorial https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/286/article/977527
This Editorial summarizes Early Theatre’s expanded growth in visibility, readership, and scholarly impact, and announces the journal’s 2025 essay prizes for original research published in volumes 26 (2023) and 27 (2024).
Articles
‘My Cloudy Melancholy’: Productions of Whiteness in Titus Andronicus (1594)
Molly Ziegler
The Dangers of Idealized Femininity in Early Modern Sophonisba Tragedies
Laura DeLuca
Acousmatic Warfare: Staging Sound in the Play(game)house of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mayra Cortes
Taken Boys and Mistaken Benevolence in the Early Modern English Theatre and the Virginia Company
Emily D. Bryan
Review Essay:
White/Right Shakespeare: Whiteness in the Field of Early Modern Studies
Kirsten N. Mendoza
Issues in Review: Drama and Conversion
Introduction: Drama and Conversion
Stephen Wittek
Mediating Criminal Conversion in City Comedy and Domestic Tragedy
Sheila Coursey
Virtue’s Pour: Exemplarity and Conversion in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part One
Jordan Zajac
Griselda Fights Back: Converting the Prodigal Husband in The London Prodigal
Hannah Korell
‘And art thou changed?’: Romeo’s Transformation from Renegade to Martyr
Holly Crawford Pickett
Conversion as Nonperformative Speech in The Jew of Malta
Emily Parise
- Melinda Gough, Editor, Early Theatre
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