Publications

Books

Gallery Exhibition

“Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550 – 1750.”  Folger Shakespeare Library.  Washington, DC.  June 10 – September 4, 2010.                 www.folger.edu/lostatsea

 

Books

At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean.  London: Continuum Press, 2009.

Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction.  Aldershot,     UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.   Nominated for the Phyllis Goodheart Gordon Book Prize, Renaissance Society of   America, 2007.

Rogues and Early Modern English Culture, eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz.     Ann Arbor: University of  Michigan Press, 2004.  Paperback 2nd ed.  2006.

 

Articles

“Strange Weather in King Lear.”  Shakespeare   6:2 (2010): 139-52.

“Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English   Literature.”   Literature Compass 6:5 (2009): 997-1013.  (Solicited article)

“Shipwreck and Ecology: Toward a Unifying Theory of Shakespeare and Romance.”       International        Shakespeare Yearbook 8 (2008) 165-82.    (Solicited essay)

  “Escaping Italy: From Novella to Romance in Gascoigne and Lyly.” Studies in             Philology, 101:2 (Spring 2004) 253-71.

“Reason, Faith, and Shipwreck in Sidney’s New Arcadia.Studies in English Literature   44:1 (Winter  2004): 1-18.

  “The Heroine as Courtesan: Dishonesty, Romance, and the Sense of an Ending in The Unfortunate  Traveler.” Studies in Philology 98 (2001): 339-58.

“Wearing Greene: Autolycus, Robert Greene, and the Structure of Romance in The       Winter’s Tale.”     Renaissance Drama 30 (1999-2001): 73-92.

  “Selling Sidney: William Ponsonby, Thomas Nashe, and the Boundaries of Elizabethan Print and   Manuscript Cultures.” TEXT 13 (2000): 151-74.

 

Book Chapters

“Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History.”      Blackwell Encyclopedia of Tudor Literature.  Kent Cartwright, ed.  London:       Blackwell, 2010: 489-503. 

“’A Note Beyond Your Reach’: Prose Romance’s Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama.”  “Border Crossings      in Early Modern Romance: Plays, Prose Fiction, and Shakespeare.” Mary Ellen Lamb and   Valerie Wayne, eds.  London: Routledge, 2008: 75-90.

“Forming Greene: Theorizing the Early Modern Author in the Groatsworth of Wit.”    Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional      Writer, eds. Kirk Melinkoff and Ed   Gieskes.  (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate   Publishing, 2008) 115-31.     

“Day Labor: Thomas Nashe and the Practice of Prose in Early Modern England.”  Early Modern Prose      Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading, ed. Naomi Leibler.         (London: Routledge, 2007) 18-32.

“Revising the Sources: Novella, Romance, and the Meanings of Fiction in All’s Well that   Ends Well.”     All’s Well that Ends Well: New Critical Essays, ed. Gary Waller. (London: Routledge, 2007).

“The Ínsula at the End: Sancho’s Governorship and the Sense of Two Endings in the Novel.”  The Impact    of Don Quixote (1605-2005) on the Culture of the Modern and Postmodern World, ed. Carlos   Arborleda.  (New Haven: Southern CT State University Press, 2006) 170-84.

“Magic Books: Cony-Catching and the Romance of Early Modern London.”  Rogues and   Early Modern   English Culture.  Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, eds.  (Ann     Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004): 240-58

“Rogues and Early Modern English Culture.”  Introduction to Rogues and Early Modern  English Culture, eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, (Ann Arbor: University of         Michigan Press, 2004) 1-29.  Co-authored with Craig Dionne.

“The Thigh and the Sword: Gender, Genre, and Sexy Dressing in Sidney’s New    Arcadia.”  Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities. Constance Relihan and      Goran Stanivukovic, eds.   (New York:   Palgrave, 2003) 77-91.

“The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel: Launcelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The       Merchant of Venice.”  Shakespeare and the Age of Money.  Linda Woodbridge,         ed.  (New York: Palgrave, 2003) 177-88.

 

Book reviews

 

Regina Schneider, Sidney’s (Re)Writing of the “Arcadia.”  Renaissance Quarterly 61: 1 (Spring 2009):  315-17.

Richard Helgerson, A Sonnet from Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-   Century Europe.  Early Modern Literary Studies 14:2 (September 2008):       http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/14-2/revhelge.html.

Alan Sinfield, Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.     Renaissance Quarterly 60: 2 (Summer 2007) 669-70.

David Quint, Cervantes’ Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of Don Quijote (Princeton: Princeton   University Press, 2003).  St. John’s Humanities Review, 2006.

Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Violation and Identity(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2005).  Sixteenth-Century Journal, forthcoming 2006.

Derek Alwes, Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004).        Early Modern Literary Studies 10:3 (2005): http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/10-3/revmentz.html.

Bryan Reynolds, Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern  England  (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), Clio: A Journal of Literature,    History, and the Philosophy of History 33:1 (2003): 73-77.

Barnebe Riche, His Farewell to Military Profession, Donald Beecher, ed., (Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions,  1992), Shakespeare Newsletter 50:4 (Winter 2000-1): 95, 108.

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of  Chicago Press, 1998), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30   (2000): 636-37.

 

Theater Reviews

As You Like It, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest.  Shakespeare Bulletin 28:4 (Winter 2010) 491-96.

Women Beware Women, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merchant of Venice.  Shakespeare Bulletin 27:4    (Winter 2009) 668-81.

“The King is a Thing: Shakespeare in New York City, 2007.”  Shakespeare Bulletin 26:2 (Summer 2008)   149-66.  (Review article)

Twelfth Night.  Directed by Edward Hall for Propeller.  Shakespeare Bulletin 25.4 (Winter 2007) 141-3.

The Taming of the Shrew.  Directed by Beverly Bullock for ShakespeareNYC. Shakespeare Bulletin 25.2    (Summer 2007) 49-51.

The Revenger’s Tragedy.  Directed by Jesse Berger for The Red Bull Theater.  Shakespeare Bulletin 24.3  (Fall 2006) 100-3.

 

Review Essays

Early Modern Rogue Scholarship.  Shakespeare Newsletter 53:1 (Spring 2003): 9, 16.