Elizabeth Williamson / research profile
Publications
"Staging the Tortured Body in The Martyred Soldier." Forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 26 (2013).
"Dismembering rhetoric and lively action in The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Forthcoming in Staging the Blazon: Poetic Dismemberment in Early Modern Theater. Eds. Sara Morrison and Deborah Uman.
"Yorick's Afterlives: Skull Properties in Performance." Borrowers and Lenders 6.1.
Editor (with Jane Hwang Degenhardt). Religion and Drama in Early Modern England (Ashgate 2011).
Book Review. "Shakespearean Resurrection by Sean Benson." Religion and Literature 41.3 (Autumn 2009): 147-49.
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama (Ashgate 2009). (Read a review of the book here.)
"Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare's Plays." In Shakespeare and Religious Change. Edited by Kenneth Graham and Philip Collington (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). 110-32.
"The Uses and Abuses of Prayer Book Properties in Hamlet, Richard III, and Arden of Faversham." English Literary Renaissance 39:2 (Spring 2009): 371-95.
"Useful and fancy articles: relics of the nineteenth-century stage." Shakespeare International Yearbook , Vol. 7 (Fall 2007): 233-55.
"The Domestication of Religious Objects in The White Devil." Studies in English Literature 47:2 (Spring 2007): 473-90.
Book Review. "Maurice Hunt, Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness." Baylor Journal of Theater and Performance (Fall 2006): 129-33.
Papers and lectures
"'Batter'd, not demolish'd': the body in pain in The Martyred Soldier." Panel: Prosthetics and Performance. Shakespeare Association of America. 2011.
"Hamlet's Skull and the Problem of Anonymity." Guest presenter. Five-College Renaissance Seminar, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 2007.
"Useful and fancy articles: relics of the nineteenth century stage." Panel: The Presence of Shakespeare. Shakespeare Association of America. April 2006.
"Altar Properties and Their Trappings." Panel: Materializing Performance in Early Modern England. Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, California, April 2006.
"Reluctant idols: the language of Protestant rebuke in The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Special Session: Shakespeare and the Reformation. Modern Language Association Conference, Washington D.C., 30 December 2005.
"Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare's Plays." Panel: The Medieval Heritage. Seventeenth Waterloo Conference on Religion and Theatre, Waterloo, Ontario, 17 June 2005.
"The Performance of Piety: The Uses and Misuses of Sacred Books on the Early Modern Stage." Panel: Beyond the Printed Page: Rethinking Renaissance Women. Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK, 7 April 2005.
"'A devill in the wall': Acts of Resurrection on the Seventeenth-Century Stage." University of Pennsylvania Medieval-Renaissance Seminar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 31 March 2004.
"Resurrection and theatrical inheritance." Panel: Theatrical Properties. Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 April 2004.
"Crucifixes and Capuchins: Desecrated Rituals in The White Devil." Panel: Contested Objects: Religious Upheaval, Catholic Objects and Body Parts on the Renaissance Stage. Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego, California, 28 December 2003.
"Valuable but Light: The Social Life of Othello's Handkerchief." Panel: Shakespeare, Politics, and Economics. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8 May 2003.
"Othello and the Circulation of Trifles". Panel: Commodities and Commodification in Shakespeare. Shakespeare Association of American, Victoria, British Columbia, 11 April 2003.
Panelist. "The Social Life of Things: A Retrospective Roundtable." University of Pennsylvania Ethnohistory Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 October, 2002.
"Embedded in Time: Performance Strategies in The Winter's Tale." Panel: Performing Continuities and Ruptures on the Early Modern Stage. Wrinkles in Time, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 October 2000.