Monograph

“Disabled by Law: Able-Minded Citizenship in Early Modern English Literature and Property Law.” Drafting.

Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England: Drama, Law, and Emotion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 280 p. ISBN 9781487537432. Publisher’s Page.

Critical Edition

Shakespeare, William. Richard II. Cambridge Shakespeare Edition. Cambridge University Press. Drafting; expected to be completed in 2028.

Articles and Book Chapters

“The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn: Service, Mental Disability, and the Limits of Institutional Care,” Ed. Jackie Watson and Emma Rhatigan. Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Law, Literature, and Identity. Palgrave, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77445-4_6

With Andrew Bozio. “Whiteness as Knowingness: Race and Intellectual Disability in Shakespeare’s Othello.” Ed. Alice Equestri. Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Forthcoming in 2025.

“Against White Cripistemology: Seeing Race and Global Disability in King Lear.” Ed. Katherine Schaap Williams., Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. New York: Routledge, 2024. 160-82. Publisher’s page.

“Dressing to Transgress: Aesthetic Matching, Historical Costumers of Color, and the Restorying of Institutional Spaces.” Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts. Ed. Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 126-43. Open Access on EUP or JStor.

“Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the ‘Uses’ of Small Forms.” Law, Culture and the Humanities 18.3 (2022): 674-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872119826455

“On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2.” Studies in Philology 114.1 (2017): 97-123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/90000849

“Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 43.3 (2012): 667-679. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/SCJ24245546

• Translated into Portuguese by Jony Clay Borges as “Antes do direito de permanecer em silêncio: Os inquéritos de Anne Askew e Elizabeth Young” for Professor Daniel Aquino’s law seminar at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, April 2018.

“‘He Only Talks’: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus.” The Ben Jonson Journal 18.1 (2011): 126-140. https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2011.0011

Encyclopedia Articles

“Trial Jury (Early Modern).” Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature. Ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern. Cheltenham: Elgar, 2025. 475–78. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803925912.ch123

“Trial by Jury in Early Modern England.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Ed. Kristen Poole; topics ed. Wendy Hyman. 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW39-1.

“The English Inns of Court.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Ed. Kristen Poole; topics ed. Wendy Hyman. 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW70-1.

“John Davies,” “John Marston,” and “John Dowland.” The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. 3 Vols. Ed. Garrett Sullivan, Alan Stewart, Rebecca Lemon, Nicholas McDowell, and Jennifer Richards. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Reviews

Hao, Tianhu. Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Multicultural Shakespeare. https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/25045/24981

Winston, Jessica. Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. The American Historical Review 129:2 (2024): 837–8. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae140.

Loftis, Sonya Freeman. Shakespeare and Disability Studies. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Renaissance Quarterly 76, no. 2 (2023): 797–99. https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.298.

Williams, Katherine Schaap. Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Modern Philology 120:3 (2022): E102-6. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722265

“Love, Law, and Literature.” Forum essay for Regina Schwartz’s Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Syndicate. 7 July 2019. https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/loving-justice-living-shakespeare/

Burton, Ben and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, eds. The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Renaissance Quarterly 70.1 (2017): 401-2.

Greenberg, Marissa. Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Renaissance Quarterly 69.3 (2016): 1188–90.

The Changeling. Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. Director Joe Hill-Gibbins. Young Vic, London. 25 Feb. 2012. Cahiers Élisabéthains 81 (2012): 57-8.

Public Writing

“What is the difference between a demon and a ghost? Books, folklore and history reflect society’s supernatural beliefs.” Curious Kids Column, The Conversation. Oct. 27, 2025. https://theconversation.com/whats-the-difference-between-ghosts-and-demons-booksfolklore-and-history-reflect-societys-supernatural-beliefs-250997.