Nearly all scholars assume that the assassin Lightborne kills Edward by raping him with a spit at the conclusion of Marlowe's Edward H. They thus assert that this act mocks the desire it punishes Edward's for Gaveston. This article emphasizes that early modern texts of the play lack the stage direction that would describe Lightborne's actions and hence argues that this stage omission's ambiguity undercuts sodomy's early modern cultural logic. Marlowe does not defend sodomy but demonstrates that accusations of sodomy are themselves sodomitic, foreclosing jurisprudential efforts to categorize sexual acts in moral terms.

A professorship chair established at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for Edward S. Cooper, MD, was endowed with $2 million. This new professorship is in honor of the wonderful physician who has dedicated his life to the field of cardiovascular disease and stroke, while epitomizing excellence in research, teaching, and patient care.

The article reviews several books including "Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism" edited by Tobias Döring and Mark Stein, and "Global Palestine" by John Collins.

This book review finds that in a new handbook on political trust, the recent literature on political trust is summarised by highly distinguished authors. Both theoretical and empirical chapters are included. A major innovation is that the geographical scope of investigation is global, thus allowing for new theoretical perspectives on the democratic status of political trust, as the book review concludes.