My first monograph Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
It is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography and tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived as the disposition of type on the page, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality—from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage—intelligible on the page.
The book has been reviewed positively in the TLS (1 January 2021) and a range of academic journals: Shakespeare Quarterly 71.3-4 (2020); Restoration 44.2 (2020); Seventeenth-Century News 79.1-2 (2021); Early Theatre 24.1 (2021); RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 22.2 (2021); Shakespeare Survey 74 (2021); Philological Quarterly 100.2 (2021); Renaissance Studies 36.3 (2022); and The Library 23.2 (2022).
You can watch a replay of the virtual book launch event here. The launch also celebrated the publication of Megan Heffernan’s Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England (Penn Press, 2021) and Laura Kolb’s Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (OUP, 2021).
Please ask your institutional library to order copies of all three books. You can also purchase Typographies of Performance for yourself on OUP’s website (or wherever you buy books online).