Books

Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy. The Arden Shakespeare. Bloomsbury, 2023. 

Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave, 2014. 

The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 

Edited Collections

Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, 2017

The Afterlife of Ophelia. ed. Kaara L. Peterson and Deanne Williams. Palgrave, 2012

Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures. Cambridge University Press, 2005

Special Journal Issues

“Special Section: Pericles, Prince of Tyre.” The Shakespearean International Yearbook vol. 20 (2023).

“Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare.” Special Issue for Borrowers and Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation vol. 9 no. 1 (2014).

Articles

Girlhoods:

  • “The Girl Player, The Virgin Mary, and Romeo and Juliet.” Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England. ed. Simon Smith and Emma Whipday. Cambridge University Press, 2022: 77-98. (Download PDF)
  • “Introduction: ‘Look on’t Again.'” Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England ed. Deanne Williams and Richard Preiss. Cambridge University Press, 2017: 1-14. (Download PDF)
  • Chastity, Speech, and the Girl Masquer.” Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England ed. Deanne Williams and Richard PreissCambridge University Press, 2017: 162-183. (Download PDF)
  • “Shakespeare and the Girl Masquer.” Shakespeare Studies 44 (2016): 203-229. (Download PDF)
  • Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave, 2014. Available from Palgrave Macmillan
  • “Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare.” Special Issue for Borrowers and Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation vol. 9 no. 1 (2014). (Link)
  • “Prospero’s Girls.” Borrowers and Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation vol. 9 no. 1 (2014). (Download PDF)
  • “Isabelle de France: Child Bride.” The Perilous Narrow Ocean: French Connections in the Renaissance ed. Hassan Melehy and Catherine Gimelli Martin. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013): 27-50. (Download PDF)
  • “Enter Ofelia Playing on a Lute.” The Afterlife of Ophelia. ed. Kaara L. Peterson and Deanne Williams. Palgrave, 2012: 119-137. (Download PDF)
  • “No Man’s Elizabeth: Frances Yates and the History of History.” The Impact of Feminism on Renaissance Scholarship ed. Dympna Callaghan. Palgrave, 2007: 238-58. (Download PDF)
  • “Hope Emily Allen Speaks with the Dead.” Leeds Studies in English 35 (2004): 137-160. (Download PDF)
  • “Mary Tudor’s French Tutors: Renaissance Dictionaries and the Language of Love.” Dictionaries vol. 21 (2000): 37-51. (Download PDF)

French Connections:

  • “Isabelle de France: Child Bride.” The Perilous Narrow Ocean: French Connections in the Renaissance ed. Hassan Melehy and Catherine Gimelli Martin. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013): 27-50. (Download PDF)
  • “Roussillon and Retrospection in All’s Well That Ends Well.” Representing France in the English Renaissance ed. Jean-Christophe Meyer. University of Delaware Press, 2008: 171-192. (Download PDF)
  • The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback, 2006. Available from Cambridge University Press (Link)
  • “Mary Tudor’s French Tutors: Renaissance Dictionaries and the Language of Love.” Dictionaries vol. 21 (2000): 37-51. (Download PDF)
  • “‘Will you go, Anheers?’ The Merry Wives of Windsor, II. i. 209.” Notes and Queries vol. 46 no. 2 (Spring, 1999): 233-234. (Download PDF)
  • “The Merry Wives of Windsor and the French-English Dictionary.” Le Shakespeare français: sa langue/ The French Shakespeare: His Language. ALFA: Actes de langue française et de linguistique vol. 10. (1998): 233-243. (Download PDF)

Medievalisms:

  • “Isabelle de France: Child Bride.” The Perilous Narrow Ocean: French Connections in the Renaissance eds. Hassan Melehy and Catherine Gimelli Martin. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013): 27-50. (Download PDF)
  • “What Shakespeare Did to Chaucer: Books and Bodkins in Hamlet and The Tempest.” co-authored with Seth Lerer. Shakespeare. Journal of the British Shakespeare Association 8 (2012): 1-13. (Download PDF)
  • “Shakespearean Medievalism and the Limits of Periodization in Cymbeline.” Literature Compass 8/6 (2011): 390–403. (Download PDF)
  • “Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature.” A Companion to Tudor Literature, ed. Kent Cartwright. Blackwell, 2010: 213-227. (Download PDF)
  • “Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest.” Ariel 39.3 (2008): 107-123. (Download PDF)
  • “Roussillon and Retrospection in All’s Well That Ends Well.” Representing France in the English Renaissance ed. Jean Christophe Meyer. University of Delaware Press, 2008: 171-192. (Download PDF)
  • “Boethius Our Contemporary: The Consolatio in Medieval and Early Modern England.” The Erotics of Consolation ed. Catherine Léglu and Steve Milner. Palgrave, 2008: 205-226. (Download PDF)
  • “Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and the Rhetoric of Temporality.” Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England ed. David Matthews and Gordon McMullan. Cambridge University Press, 2007: 31-50. (Download PDF)
  • “All’s Well That Ends Well and the Art of Retrograde Motion.” All’s Well That Ends Well: New Critical Essays ed. Gary Waller. Routledge, 2006: 152-170.(Download PDF)
  • “Dido Queen of England.” ELH 71 (Spring, 2006): 31-59. (Download PDF)
  • “Papa Don’t Preach: The Power of Prolixity in Pericles.” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 71 no. 2 (Spring, 2002): 595-622. (Download PDF)
  • “Herod’s Cities: Cesaria and Sebaste in Twelfth Night.” Notes and Queries vol. 48 no. 3 (Fall, 2001): 276-8. (Download PDF)

Medieval English Literature:

  • “The Dream Visions.” Yale Companion to Chaucer ed. Seth Lerer. Yale University Press, 2005: 147-78. (Download PDF)
  • “Gower’s Monster.” Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures. Cambridge University Press, 2005: 127-50. Available from Cambridge University Press (Download PDF)
  • “Introduction: A Return to Wonder” co-authored with Ananya Kabir. Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures: 1-24. (Download PDF)

Pioneering Women Scholars:

  • “No Man’s Elizabeth: Frances Yates and the History of History.” The Impact of Feminism on Renaissance Scholarship ed. Dympna Callaghan. Palgrave, 2007: 238-58. (Download PDF)
  • “Hope Emily Allen Speaks with the Dead.” Leeds Studies in English 35 (2004): 137-160. (Download PDF)

Queen Elizabeth I:

  • “Elizabeth I: Size Matters.” Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I ed. Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese Connolly. Manchester University Press, 2007: 69-80. (Download PDF)
  • “No Man’s Elizabeth: Frances Yates and the History of History.” The Impact of Feminism on Renaissance Scholarship ed. Dympna Callaghan. Palgrave, 2007: 238-58. (Download PDF)
  • “Dido Queen of England.” ELH 71 (Spring, 2006): 31-59. (Download PDF)

Shakespeare Adaptations:

  • “Prospero’s Girls.” Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare. Special issue of Borrowers and Lenders. The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 9 (2014). (Download PDF)
  • “Rohinton Mistry’s Family Shakespeare.” Borrowers and Lenders. The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 2 vol. 2 (Fall/Winter 2007). (Download PDF)
  • “Mick Jagger Macbeth.” Shakespeare Survey 57 (2004): 145-68. (Download PDF)