Publications

Books

• Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• Shakespeare’s Names (Oxford: Oxford University Press, October 2007)
• How to Do Things with Shakespeare (Oxford: Blackwell, June 2007)
  
• Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way; or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Shakespeare (New York: Penguin, 2006; London: Nicholas Brealey, 2007)
  
• Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays (Oxford: Blackwell, September 2003; reprinted January 2004, March 2004). [242pp]
  
• Textual Formations and Reformations, co-edited with Thomas L. Berger (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1998) [301pp].
  
• Shakespearean Suspect Texts: the "Bad Quartos" and their Contexts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) [427pp +xvii]. Paperback, 2006.
  

Selected articles and book chapters

• “How Many Children had Alice Walker?” In Printing and Parenting in Early Modern Drama ed. Douglas Brooks (London: Ashgate, 2005): 327-350.
  
• “Marlovian Texts and Authorship”. In The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Ed. Patrick Cheney. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 41-55
  
• “‘Actions that a man might play’: Mourning, Memory and Performance in Hamlet”. Performance Research (2002): 66-76.
  
• “The Anatomy of Abuse(s): Performing Anger in Troilus and Cressida”. Renaissance Drama (2002): 153-84.
  
• "Shakespeare Published”. In Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Ed. Lena C. Orlin and Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Pp 582-94.
  
• "The Morris Witch in The Witch of Edmonton”. In The Renaissance Tragic Heroine ed. Naomi Conn Liebler (London: Macmillan / Palgrave 2002): 185-98.
  
• "Teaching The Tragedy of Mariam through Performance”. In Approaches to Teaching Renaissance Drama (New York: MLA, 2002). Pp. 95-98.
  
• "Cultural Control in The Taming of the Shrew”. In The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays. Ed. Dana E. Aspinall. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 236-54. (NB This is a reprint of an article I published in 1995)
  
• "The Fencing Scene”. In Approaches to Teaching Hamlet ed. Bernice Kliman (New York: MLA, 2001). Pp.191-196.
  
• "Composition/Decomposition: Singular Shakespeare and Plural Texts”. In Renaissance Text ed. Andrew Murphy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000). Pp. 135-153.
  
• "Feminist Editing and the Body of the Text”. In Dympna Callaghan ed. A Companion to Feminist Shakespeare Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). Pp.59-79.
  
• "A Printer and a Date for Q4 A Looking Glass for London and England". Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999): 155-60.
  
• "'Oh be some other name': Translating Romeo and Juliet”. In Text and Performance ed. Arthur Kinney and Lois Potter (Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 1999). Pp. 266-85.
  
• "(Mis)diagnosing Memorial Reconstruction in John of Bordeaux". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 11 (1998): 114-128.
  
• "The Craft of Printing”. In David Scott Kastan ed. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998): 343-59.
  
• "Textual Topography" (introductory chapter to Textual Formations and Reformations (see above), pp. 11-18).
• "Petruccio and the Barber's Shop”. Studies in Bibliography 51(1998): 117-26.
  
• "The Girls from Ephesus”. In The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, ed. Robert S. Miola (New York: Garland Press, 1997). Pp. 355-92.
  
• "Cultural Control in The Taming of the Shrew”. Renaissance Drama 26 (1995): 83-104.
  
• "'Household Kates': Chez Petruchio, Percy, and Plantagenet”. In S. P. Cerasano and M. Wynne-Davies eds. Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance (Harvester Press, 1992). Pp.129-165.
  
• "The Pragmatics of Politics: Casting Henry IV and Henry V”. Cahiers Elisabethains 39 (1990): 9-24.
  
• "Chettle, Lady Jane, and Sir Thomas Wyat”. N&Q 233 (1988): 488-89.
  
• "The New Swan's First Season”. Theatre Notebook 41 (1987): 101-107.
  
• "A Stage Property in A Larum for London”. N&Q 231 (1986): 371-2.
  
• "John Holland and John of Bordeaux”. N&Q 231 (1986): 327-33.
  
• "A King's Men's Contract and Dramatic Output”. N&Q 230 (1985): 73-74.

Translation (with Michael Johnson)

Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz by Jean-Noël Fenwick (a play about Marie Curie, winner of six Molière awards in Paris in 1990).