Publications

Liz Oakley-Brown & Louise J. Wilkinson, eds., The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern (Four Courts Press 2009)

The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern explores the ways in which, whether a consort or a ruler in her own right, the late medieval and early modern queen was a pivotal, and often controversial, figure. By examining the historical character of the queen as represented in letters, chronicles and documents of state, as well as her fashioning (and re-fashioning)  in a range of literary works and visual media, the essays in this collection interrogate the role of the female monarch, primarily within the British Isles, both as a symbol of harmony and dynastic stability and as a potential focus for political factionalism, disunity and discontent.  The Review of English Studies (May 2010) writes, “The essays are of a uniformly high quality and make an important contribution to our current understanding of female magistracy in the pre-modern world… Oakley-Brown and Wikinson have done a masterful job of assembling an array of new scholarly perspectives on the field of early modern queenship.”

Preternature: Special Issue ‘Capturing Witches’, ed. Findlay and Oakley-Brown (forthcoming January 2014)

Findlay, ‘Rites and Revivals in Love’s Victory’, in Prismatic Shakespeare from the Renaissance to the Twenty First Century, ed. Kumiko Hoshi, Hanako Nadehara and Reiko Ishibuchi (Tokyo: Kinseido 2013), pp. 89-104;

Findlay, ‘A Day to Remember: wedding and ceremony in Shakespeare’, Shakespeare, 8:4 (2012), 411-23; ‘Ceremony and Selfhood in The Comedy of Errors (c1592),’ in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama, ed. Thomas Betteridge and Greg Walker (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 338-54;

Findlay, ‘The Madcap and Politic Prince of Wales: Ceremony and Courtly Performance in Henry IV,’ in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I: Critical Essays, ed. Stephen Longstaffe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. 86-98

Findlay, ‘Surface Tensions: Ceremony and Shame in Much Ado About Nothing,’ Shakespeare Survey, 63, ed. Peter Holland (2010), 282-90.