Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies

A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication, Brief Chronicles is overseen by an Editorial Board  including academicians with terminal degrees and distinguished records of scholarship and teaching. The journal publishes research-based notes, articles, and monographs, as well as essays and reviews of books, theater productions, and movies based on the drama and literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

We solicit relevant original scholarship and essays that shed critical light on the Shakespeare canon and its authorship--particularly those written from an informed Oxfordian perspective--on theories and problems in the study of early modern authorship and literary creativity, and on related questions of early modern literary culture, aesthetics, bibliography, psychology, law, linguistics, biography, and history.

Contributions utilizing an interdisciplinary methodology that draws on the conventions and data of more than one relevant humanities discipline to produce original, carefully reasoned and readable insights, are especially welcome.

All contents of Brief Chronicles are free and open access. At the present time, it is not necessary to register or login to read. To access the first issue, please click on the link "Current" in the header navigation.

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Announcements

 

BC III Published Online

  
Brief Chronicles III (2011) is now published in the electronic online edition.  
Posted: 2012-01-01 More...
 

Brief Chronicles article excerpted by Gale's Shakespearan Criticism

  
An article from the first issue of Brief Chronicles, Earl Showerman's "Shakespeare's Many Much Ado's: Alcestis, Hercules, and Love's Labour's Wonne'" (123-137) has been chosen by Gale Group for reprint in its 2011 issue of Shakespearean Criticism. 
 
Posted: 2011-03-06 More...
 

Issue II

  
The 2010 issue of Brief Chronicles, featuring ten articles by distinguished contributors and five book reviews of new books on the authorship question, is now published.  
Posted: 2010-11-20 More...
 
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