Shakespeare Bulletin is an academic journal

Academic journal

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 founded in 1982. The journal focuses exclusively on performance criticism and scholarly treatment of Shakespearean

William Shakespeare

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 and renaissance

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 drama on stage and screen. Each issue contains original articles as well as theatre, film, and book reviews. Theatre coverage encompasses the United States

United States

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, Canada

Canada

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, the United Kingdom

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, and many other countries. In 1992 the Bulletin incorporated the Shakespeare on Film Newsletter, which had been in publication since 1976. The current editor is Andrew James Hartley of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

The journal is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

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. The average length of an issue is 140 pages. Annually the journal publishes approximately 20 articles, a hundred theatre/film reviews and 10 reviews of performance-oriented books. Special issues have covered such issues as the Shakespeare films of Orson Welles, audience studies ("Watching ourselves watching Shakespeare"), Christopher Marlowe in performance, and teen film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

Essays are double-blind peer-reviewed, while reviews are commissioned by the appropriate editor.

External links

• Official website
• Shakespeare Bulletin at Project MUSE
  Project MUSE
  Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...