Jean E. Howard
Professor of English
Publications:
Books:
- Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984)
- Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, edited with Marion O'Connor (London: Methuen, 1987)
- The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 1994)
- With Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories, (London: Routledge, 1997)
- Co-editor of The Norton Shakespeare (New York: Norton, 1997)
Articles:
- "The Incoherent Mind: Self-Satire in Pope's Imitation of Horace's First Epistle," The Blue Guitar, 2 (1976), 183-99
- "Shakespearean Counterpoint: Stage Technique and the Interaction Between Play and Audience," Shakespeare Quarterly, 30 (Summer 1979), 343-57
- "English in the Eighties," in Celebration of the Humanities, a volume prepared by The College of Ages and Sciences at Syracuse University (November 1979), 142-53
- "Figures and Grounds: Shakespeare's Control of Audience Perception and Response," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 20 (Spring 1980), 185-99
- "Shakespeare's Creation of a Fit Audience for The Tempest,"Bucknell Review 25 (1981)
- "Measure for Measure and the Restraints of Convention," Essays in Literature 10:2 (Fall 1983) 149-58
- "Women Trustees amd Educational Equity," Women's Studies Quarterly 12 (Spring 1984), 12-13
- "The Difficulties of Closure: An Approach to the Problematic in Shakespearean Comedy," in Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition, Essays in Honor of Eugene M. Waith. Eds. James Bulman and A.R. Braunmuller (Newark: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986), 113-28
- "Scholarship, Theory, and More New Readings: Shakespeare for the 1990's," in Shakespeare Study Today: The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Lectures. Ed. Georgianna Ziegler (New York: AMS Press, 1986), 127-51
- "The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies," ELR 16 (1986), 13-43, rpt. as the lead article in Renaissance Historicism: Selections from English Literary Renaissance. Eds. Arthur Kinney and Dan Collins (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987); also rpt. in an anthology on The New Historicism published by The University of Bologna, Italy, 1994
- "Recent Studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 27:2 (Spring 1987), 321-79
- "'Effeminately Dolent': Gender and Legitimacy in John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, " in John Ford: Critical Re-visions, Ed. Michael Neill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 261-79
- "Crossdressing, The Theater, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England," Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (Winter 1988), 418-40; rpt. in Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-dressing, Ed. Lesley Ferris (New York: Routledge, 1933), 20-46; partially rpt. as "Cross-dressing in Twelfth Night" in Signet edition of Twelfth Night, Ed. Sylvan Barnet (New York: Dutton NAL, 1998), 159-63
- "Scripts and/versus Playhouses: Ideological Production on the Renaissance Public Stage," Renaissance Drama 20 (Winter 1989); rpt. in The Matter of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare Ed. Valerie Wayne (London: Harvester Press, 1991), 221-36; partially rpt. in Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Eds. David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass (New York: Routledge, 1991), 68-74
- "Towards a Postmodern, Politically Committed Historical Practice" in Uses of History: Marxism, Postmodernism, and the Renaissance, Eds. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iverson (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), 101-22
- "Feminism and the Question of History: Resituating the Terms of the Debate," Women's Studies 19 (1991), 149-57
- "Sex and Social Struggle: The Erotics of The Roaring Girl," in Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage, Ed. Susan Zimmerman (London: Routledge, 1992), 170-90
- "Political Intervention in the Academy: The Institutional Incorporation of Difference," Mediations (Summer 1992)
- "Forming the Commonwealth: Including, Excluding, and Criminalizing Women in Heywood's Edward IV and Shakespeare's Henry IV," in Privileging Gender in Early Modern England. Ed. Jean R. Brink, Vol. XXIII of Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies (Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1993), 109-21
- "An English Lass Amid the Moors: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and National Identity in Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West," in Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period. Eds. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker (London: Routledge, 1994), 101-17
- "The Stage and the Struggle for Social Place in Early Modern England," in Place and Displacement in the Renaissance, Ed. Alvin Vos (Binghamton: State University of New York, 1995), 1-24
- "Mastering Difference in The Dutch Courtesan," Shakespeare Studies 24 (1996), 105-17
- "Writing the History of the Present: Contextualizing Early Modern Literature," forthcoming in Conference Proceedings of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY, Binghamton (1999)
- "Other Englands: The View from the non-Shakespeare History Play," in Other Voices: Rethinking the Canon, Ed. Helen Ostovich (forthcoming 1998)
- "Foreigners and Englishman in Early Modern City Comedy," forthcoming in Material London, Ed. Lena Orlin (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
- "Shakespeare and Genre," forthcoming in Companion to Shakespeare, Ed. David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 297-310
Reviews:
- Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare, in Shakespeare Quarterly 34 (Autumn 1983), 378-81
- Jonathan Goldberg, James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Their Contemporaries, in Shakespeare Quarterly 35 (Summer 1984), 234-37
- David Bevington, Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture, in Renaissance Quarterly XXXVIII (Autumn 1985), 576-79
- Eckhard Auberlen, The Commonwealth of Wit: The Writer's Image and His Strategies of Self-Representation in Elizabethan Literature, in Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (Summer 1986), 273-74
- James R. Siemon, Shakespearean Iconoclasm, in Renaissance Quarterly XXXIX (Spring 1986), 138-141
- Double Review of Stephen Greenblatt's Shakespearean Negotiations and Steven Mullaney's The Place of the Stage, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89:1 (January 1990), 118-23
- Linda Charnes, Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare, Renaissance Quarterly 49:2 (Summer 1996), 419-20
- Paola Pugliatti, Shakespeare the Historian, Albion 30:1 (Spring 1998), 97-99