We are happy to announce the winners of the 2004 Early English Books Online/ EEBO-TCP Undergraduate Essay Competition. The papers submitted all offered impressive evidence of the exciting uses students can find for primary texts, and in many cases they also illustrate the noteworthy contributions that undergraduates can make to the field of early modern studies.

We are very glad to have had a role in the work these winners have accomplished, and we are very proud of the scholarship these students have exhibited in their use of texts from EEBO. We would also like to invite you to learn more about their work by sharing the papers that the students provided.

To view these papers, please click on the paper titles listed below.

Grand Prize: Heidi Atwood (Washington College) “Thy leaden heels no golden wit doth show:” Physick, Alchemy, and the Body Corporeal in Milton’s Paradise Lost

First Prize: Meghan Fadel (SUNY - Buffalo) Reason through the Unreasonable.

Second Prize: Daniel Ward (University of Warwick) Literary Presentation of Political Events in Sir Thomas Durfey’s Sir Barnaby Whigg

Honorable Mention: Bianca Bonomi (University of Warwick) Literary presentation of political/religious events in John Dryden’s Amboyna

Honorable Mention: Charles Mallison (University of Southern California) With High Astounding Terms: Christopher Marlowe, Turkish Hysteria, and Subversion on the Elizabethan Stage

Scholars and librarians from a variety of fields ranked the entries and distributed awards for the contest including Katrien Daemen-de Gelder (Professor of English, University of Ghent), Julia Gardner (School of Information, University of Michigan), Arthur Kinney (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts), Hillary Nunn (Professor of English, University of Akron), Newton Key (Professor of English, Eastern Illinois University), and Kim Yates (Assistant Director, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto)