The Shakespeare Newsletter was founded in 1951 by Professor Louis Marder, retired Professor of English
at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.
Published at Iona College since 1991, it is now edited by John W. Mahon and Thomas A. Pendleton,
Professors of English at Iona.
The Shakespeare Newsletter reaches 37 countries and every continent, with more than 2,300 subscribers. Many of the subscribers are libraries around the world. Every quarterly issue includes news, book reviews, brief critical essays, summaries of journal articles, etc. Regular features include "Table of Contents" (brief reviews of current books in the field), "Review of Periodicals," "Electronic Shakespeares," and "Talking Books." Once a year the Newsletter features a comprehensive listing of Summer Shakespeare Festivals in the US, Canada, and the UK. The journal also notes the passing of famous Shakespeare critics and performers, offers the occasional Shakespeare quiz, and provides information about various conferences at home and abroad. The Editors are particularly proud of the seminar abstracts and meeting minutes published in the Newsletter, since these enable many Shakespeareans, both professionals and amateurs, to publish their views. The Newsletter now provides at least 120 pages annually of news and ideas.
Subscribers also receive occasional Extra Issues free of charge. In 1996 we published Bernice W. Kliman's edition of The Enfolded "Hamlet," and in 1997 subscribers received "About What You Will Much Like It," a collection of three classic essays by Harold Jenkins on three romantic comedies. Included are his essays on As You Like It and Twelfth Night as well as, for the first time, Professor Jenkins's 1982 lecture on Much Ado About Nothing. These Extra Issues, along with all the issues published at Iona (beginning with Volume XLI, number 4, Winter 1991), are available for $4 each.
Every issue includes the kind of news Shakespeareans have come to expect from the Newsletter, such as "Shakespeare by the Pound: A Consumer Report" or a report on the so-called Sanders Portrait of Shakespeare and, in the current issue, a cover-story on celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth I's death in Washington, D.C.The Shakespeare Newsletter charges only $15 ($17 outside the U.S.A.) per year. We encourage and welcome two-year subscriptions. Make checks payable (in U.S. dollars only, please) to The Shakespeare Newsletter. Subscribers outside the U.S.A. should use credit cards to subscribe, in order to avoid the high charges of currency-conversion charged by banks both abroad and in the United States.Subscriptions
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Department of English
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Telephone (914) 633-2061
Fax: (914) 637-2722
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