Renaissance Drama: A Critical Annual

Submissions for Volume 42 (open topic) are currently being accepted
updated October 31, 2012

Renaissance Drama is an annual publication. Occasionally special issues of the journal are devoted to specific topics of general interest. Volume 42 is planned as an open topic volume.

While we are happy to accept submissions at any time, Volume 41 is closed to submissions. Later submissions will be considered for publication in subsequent volumes.

Renaissance Drama invites articles that investigate traditional canons of drama, as well as those that explore the significance of performance, broadly construed, in early modern cultures. We particularly welcome essays that question or apply to newer forms of interpretation on the study of early modern plays, theater, and performance; that concern works written in traditions other than the English (although we can only publish essays in English); the discourses that shaped and were shaped by the varied institutions of drama across Europe and beyond its borders within which it was produced; and manifestations of performance and performativity both on and off the theatrical stage.

Renaissance Drama prefers to receive manuscript submissions electronically, either as a Rich Text Format file (.rtf) or as a Microsoft Word file (.doc). Scholars preparing manuscripts for Renaissance Drama should refer to the stylistic guidelines of The Chicago Manual of Style (14th edition), including endnote reference citations. Our standard entry length is 6,000-12,000 words. Queries and submissions should be addressed to Nathan Mead (see contact information below).

All new submissions to Renaissance Drama will be distributed to outside readers anonymously. Please leave your name, institution, and any other authorial identification off of the article itself, and instead include that information in a separate file. All questions regarding the details of the submission process can be sent to Nathan Mead at the address listed below. He will pass questions about the status of under-review articles along to the editorial staff as appropriate. 

JOURNAL STAFF

William N. West
Editor, Renaissance Drama
Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University

Nathan Mead
Staff Assistant, Renaissance Drama
Graduate Program Assistant
Department of English
Northwestern University
renaissancedrama@northwestern.edu

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