Susquehanna University Press (distributed by Associated University Presses, 2006, US $ 55.00) has published a Festscrift for Barroll edited by Lena Cowen Orlin (University of Maryland, Bah-imore County – where Barroll taught for many years). Its revisions of the English Renais­sance is entitled Center or Margin. This distinguished figure in US Shake­speare circles is worthy of the gratitude expressed here by his students and col­leagues and the essay are as follows: Marginal England.; The View from Aleppo by Peter Stallybrass (Pennsylvania); Incising Venice: The Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice by Phillipa Berry (Bris­tol); Barbers, Infidels, and Renegades: Antony and Cleopatra by Patricia Parker (Stanford); Our Canon, Ourselves  by Phyllis Rackin (her essay here is taken from her Shakespeare and Women, 2005); Artificial Couples: The Apprehensive Household in Dutch Pendants and Othello  by Harry Berger, Jr. (California at Santa Cruz, emeritus) ; Spaces of Treason in Tudor England by Lena Cowen Orlin (mentioned above as editor here);  Stage Masculinities, National History, and the Making of London Theatrical Culture by Jean E. Howard (Columbia); Charisma and Institution Building in Shakespeare's Sec­ond Tetralogy by Raphael Falco (Maryland, Baltimore County); Mona Lisa Takes a Mountain Hike, Hamlet Goes for an Ocean Dip by Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California); Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Cul­ture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne* by Catherine Belsey (Cardiff); Abdiel Centers Freedom by Susanne Woods (Wheaton College); and Arti­ficial Intensity: The Optical Technologies of Personal Reality Enhancement by Barbara Maria Stafford (Chicago), a later version of an essay which first appeared in a German journal with a title similarly boggling. For the whole, applause and shouts, one of the few phrases that stick with me after reading Smith's essay on a methodology he calls historical phenomenology.