Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication, Brief Chronicles is overseen by an Editorial Board comprised of 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.

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Section Policies

Articles

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First Person

For articles recounting first person experiences or experimental writing -- including fiction -- on the authorship question

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Reviews

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Peer Review Process

All major submissions to Brief Chronicles, including those by members of the editorial board, undergo a double-blind peer review process. Readers do not know the identity of writers, and writers do not know the identities of readers. We believe such a double-blind process is necessary to insure the integrity of scholarship.

 

Publication Frequency

As of September, 2009, Brief Chronicles is published annually in the fall of the year. At a future date we anticipate becoming a bi-annual journal.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.