The Journal of the Wooden O is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on all things Shakespeare. It is published annually by Southern Utah University Press in cooperation with the SUU Center for Shakespeare Studies and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

Articles published in the the Journal of the Wooden O are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and the World Shakespeare Bibliography and appear full-text in EBSCO Academic Search Premiere. 

Selected papers from the annual Wooden O Symposium are also considered for publication. 

Single copies may be purchased for $15 each. Libraries or individuals may subscribe to the journal for $15/year. Prices include shipping and handling.

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Vol. 22 (2022): Journal of the Wooden O

The Journal of the Wooden O is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on all things Shakespeare. It is published annually by Southern Utah University Press in cooperation with the SUU Center for Shakespeare Studies and the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Published: 2023-04-18

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Articles

Shakespeare's Boy Actors and the Ideal of White Femininity

Virginia Mason Vaughan

1-18

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Shakespeare's Racial Destiny

Tragic Whiteness and the Spirit-Savage Binary in Edwin Booth's Hamlet and Othello

Teddy Lance

19-50

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The Traumatic Stress of Revenge and War in Hamlet and Stephan Wolfert's Cry Havoc!

Christine Gottlieb

51-64

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Possible Impossibilities

Female-Female Desire in Early Modern English Drama

Caitlin Mahaffy

65-78

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Acting Shakespeare

A Roundtable Discussion with Artists from the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2022 Production of All's Well That Ends Well

Isabel Smith-Bernstein

79-97

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"Is there any record of any two that loved better than we do?"

Male Friendship in The Winter's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen

Fabia Buescher

98-113

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