MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
[MONOGRAPH] Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Tracing the role of typography in the formation of early modern English plays from Tudor moralities to the 1709 edition of Shakespeare’s Works, Typographies of Performance demonstrates that page design experiments in early modern playbooks emerged in a feedback loop with the stage and helped account for certain non-lexical qualities and effects of plays in performance.
[EDITED COLLECTION] Shakespeare / Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing, and Performance (The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, 2021; paperback 2023)
Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, theater studies, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, and literary criticism, Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by twenty leading experts on textual matters, each essay challenges a single entrenched binary—such as book/theater, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital, and original/copy—that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform, and edit Shakespeare today. This collection is part of the new Arden Shakespeare Intersections series.
‘thy unvalued Booke’: John Milton’s Copy of the Shakespeare First Folio [with Jason Scott-Warren, Cambridge University]. Milton Quarterly 56.1-2 (2022): 1-85.
Using paleographical, orthographical, historical, bibliographic, and other contextual evidence, this heavily illustrated article makes the case for John Milton as the former owner and annotator of the copy of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), otherwise known as the First Folio, now housed at the Free Library of Philadelphia. It sets Milton’s annotations in the Shakespeare folio alongside the markings in the other eight books positively identified to have been his, which are discussed and illustrated together for the first time here. The article also tracks the book’s provenance after Milton and discusses how it ended up in the Free Library’s Rare Book Department.
Articles & ESSAYS
“Paper & Type: The Materials of the First Folio,” for The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type, ed., Sam Lemley (PSU Press, 2024).
“The First Folio & Collection(s): Beyond Shakespeare,” introduction to “Shakespeare & Collection” [edited roundtable], Shakespeare Quarterly 74.4 (2023): 381-86.
“The Handmaids’ Tale: Book History, Shakespeare, and Women’s Textual Labour,” for The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England, ed., Adam Smyth (Oxford University Press, 2023), 20-46.
“Remodeling the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop” [with John Russell, Maria Isabel Maza, and Lauren Cenci], in Digital Humanities Workshops, eds, Laura Estill and Jennifer Guiliano (Routledge, 2023), 92-97.
“Shakespeare and ‘Textual Studies’: Evidence, Scale, Periodization, and Access,” in The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies, ed., Lukas Erne, The Arden Shakespeare (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), 21-49.
“Mending Tamburlaine,” in Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader, ed. David McInnis (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, Bloomsbury, 2020), 85-105.
“Typography After Performance,” in Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England, ed. Tiffany Stern (fThe Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, 2020), 193-215.
“Running Titles,” in Book Parts, ed. Adam Smyth and Dennis Duncan (Oxford University Press, 2019), 291-307.
“Vide Supplementum: Early Modern Collation as Play-Reading in the First Folio.” In Early Modern English Marginalia, ed. Katherine Acheson (Routledge, 2019), 195-233.
“Making a Scene; or, Tamburlaine the Great in Print.” In Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade, eds. Roslyn L. Knutson and Kirk Melnikoff (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 115-132.
“Dramatic Typography and the Restoration Quartos of Hamlet.” In Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1735, eds. Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 253-171.
“Marking Shakespeare.” Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association 13.4 (2017): 367-386.
“Dramatic Pilcrows.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108.4 (2014): 413-452.
“‘High Designe’: Beaumont and Fletcher Illustrated.” English Literary Renaissance 44.2 (2014), 275-327.
editions
Editor, William Shakespeare et al, “Henry the Sixth, Part 1,” for The Arden Shakespeare, Fourth Series, general eds. Peter Holland, Zachary Lesser, and Tiffany Stern (The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, under contract).
Co-editor [with David McInnis, University of Melbourne], Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, for The Oxford Marlowe: Complete Works, general eds. Rory Loughnane and Catherine Richardson (Oxford University Press, invited).
Editor, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, “The Sea Voyage,” for The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama, ed. Jeremy Lopez (Routledge, 2020), 1017-78
General Editor, Digital Beaumont & Fletcher, open-access teaching editions of plays from Comedies & Tragedies (1647), Penn State Libraries, PR2420 1647 Q
Book & Theater reviews
“‘this punctuation is dramatic’,” review of Percy Simpson, Shakespearian Punctuation (1911), The Hare: A Journal of Untimely Reviews in Early Modern Theatre 5.3 (April 2021).
“Messiness in Manuscript: Literature’s Ongoing State” (review of Daniel Wakelin, Designing English: Early Literature on the Page), Times Literary Supplement (August 3, 2018): 32.
Review of Hamlet: The First Quarto (Taffety Punk Theatre Company, 2015) [with Musa Gurnis], Shakespeare Bulletin 33.4 (2015): 663-666.
Review of Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience, 2014), Shakespeare Bulletin 33.2 (2015).
Review of Lukas Erne, Shakespeare and the Book Trade (Cambridge, 2013), SHARPNews 24.1 (2015), 18-19.
Review of Richard Meek, Jane Rickard, Richard Wilson, eds, Shakespeare’s Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (Manchester University Press, 2008), Renaissance Quarterly 62.4 (2009): 1384-1385.