Publications of Sarah Beckwith

Books

  1. Beckwith, S. Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness. Cornell University Press. April, 2011.
  2. Beckwith, S; Simpson, J. Premodern Shakespeare.40 Duke University Press, December, 2010. 1-5 pp.
  3. S. Beckwith and James Simpson (eds). Premodern Shakespeares. JMEMS.  January, 2010.
  4. Beckwith, S. Reform and Cultural Revolution: Writing English Literary History 1350-1547. Edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S.35  2005.
  5. Beckwith, S. Hermeneutics and Ideology: Reading Medieval and Early Modern Texts. Edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S.33.1  2003.
  6. Beckwith, S. Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
  7. Beckwith, S. Sacrifice. Edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S.31.3  2001.
  8. Beckwith, S. Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. Routledge, 1996.

Edited

  1. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. --. JMEMS 32.2 (Spring, 2002).
  2. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. --. JMEMS 30.2 (Spring, 2000).
  3. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. --. JMEMS 29.2 (Spring, 1999).
  4.  Communities in Transition. JMEMS 28.2 (1998).

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Beckwith, S. "Absent Presences: The Theatre of Resurrection in York." Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates.  2023. 441-454.
  2. Beckwith, S. "Hamlet’s ethics." Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives.  2017. 222-246.
  3. Beckwith, S. "Sources: Volver, or Coming Back." Shakespeare in Our Time: a Shakespeare Association of America Collection.  2016. 135-140.
  4. Bauer, N; Beckwith, S; Crary, A; Laugier, S; Moi, T; Zerilli, L. "Introduction."  46
  5. Beckwith, S. "William Shakespeare and Stanley Cavell: Acknowledgement, Confession and Tragedy." Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies. Continuum, 2011. 
  6. with Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "The Eucharist." Cultural Reformations. Ed. Simpson, J; Cummings, B. Oxford University Press, 2011. 153-165.
  7. Beckwith, S. "Acknowledgement and Confession in Cymbeline." Shakesepeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmeodern Perspectives. University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. 97-126.
  8. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "The Eucharist." Cultural Reformations. Ed. Cummings, B.  2010. 153-165.
  9. Beckwith, S. "Shakespeare’s Resurrections." Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. Ed. Perry, C; Watkins, J. Oxford University Press, 2009. 
  10. Beckwith, S. "Middle English Drama." The Cambridge Companion to Middle English Literature. Ed. Scanlon, L. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 
  11. Beckwith, S. "Drama." The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 83-94.
  12. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "Discerning the Body." Collection on Medieval and ReformationCulture. Ed. Cummings, B; Simpson, J. Oxford UP, 2008. 
  13. Beckwith, S. "Medieval Penance, Reformation Repentance and Measure for Measure." Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Ed. McMullan, G; Matthews, D. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 193-204.
  14. "The Play of Voice: Acknowledgment, Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Measure for Measure." Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. Robert Stilman. Brill, Spring, 2006.
  15. Beckwith, S. "The Play of Voice: Knowledge, Acknowledgment and Judgement in Measure for Measure." Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. Stillma, R. Brill, 2006. 
  16. Beckwith, S. "Long review essay on Catholic Shakespeares." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.  2006. 
  17. Beckwith, S. "Preserving, Conserving, Deserving the Past: A Meditation on Ruin in Postwar Britain in five Fragments.." A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes. Ed. Lees, C; Overing, G. Penn State University Press, 2006, 2006. p. 191-210.
  18. Beckwith, S. "Repairs in the Dark: Medieval Penance and Reformation Repentance in Measure for Measure." Reading the Medieval in the Early Modern edited by David Mathews and Gordon MacMullan. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 
  19. Beckwith, S. "Office,Role,Persona: Martin Marprelate’s Contribution to Theater History." Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe edited by Walter Melion.  2005. 
  20. Beckwith, S. "Preserving, Deserving, Conserving the Past: A Meditation in Fragments on Ruin as Relic in Post War England." eds, Lees and Overing. Ed. Lees, C; Overby, G. State Press, 2004. 
  21. "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies  (Jan. 2003)  8000 words
  22. Beckwith, S. "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. Aers, D; Woodbridge, B; Brewer,.  2000. 
  23. S Beckwith. "Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." Directions in Modern Theology Ed. G. Jones and J. Buckley. 15.2Blackwell, (March, 1999)
  24. Beckwith, S. "Review of Covert Operations: Secrecy in Middle English Literature." Studies in the Age of Chaucer. U of Pennsylvania P, 1999. 
  25. Beckwith, S. "Review of The Body Broken: the Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth Century France." Church History. Clarendon, 1998. 
  26. Beckwith, S. ""Pytussely beholde": Duffy, Consolation and the Contemporary Past." Assays. Ed. Knapp, P.  1997. 
  27. Beckwith, S. "Sacrum Signum: Sacramentality and Dissent in York’s Theatre of Corpus Christi." Dissent in the Middle Ages. Ed. Copeland, R. Cambridge UP, 1996. 
  28. Beckwith, S. "Review of Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society." Studies in Philology. U of Pennsylvania P, 1996. 
  29. Beckwith, S. "Ritual, Theatre and Social Space in York’s Play of Corpus Christi." Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth Century England. Ed. Hanawalt, B; Wallace, D. U of Minnesota P, 1995. 
  30. Beckwith, S. "Review of Feminist Approaches to the Medieval Body." Speculum. Ed. Stanbury, S; Lomperis, L.  1995. 
  31. Beckwith, S. "Making the World in York and the York Corpus Christi Cycle." Framing Medieval Bodies. Ed. Kay, S; Rubin, M. Manchester UP, 1994. 254-276.
  32. Beckwith, S. "Review of The New Medievalism." Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature. Ed. Borwnlee, M; Brownlee, K; Nichols, S. 3.2 1993. 
  33. Beckwith, S. "Ritual, Church and Theatre: Medieval Dramas of the Sacramental Body." Culture and History: Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing 1350-1600. Ed. Aers, D; Hempstead, H. Harvester, 1992. 65-90.
  34. Beckwith, S. "The Power of Devils and the Hearts of Men: Notes Towards a Drama of Witchcraft." Shakespeare and the Changing Curriculum. Ed. Wheale, N; Aers, L. Routledge, 1991. 143-161.
  35. Beckwith, S. "A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe." Medieval Literature: History, Criticism and Ideology. Ed. Aers, D.  1986. 34-57.
  36. "How to Do Words with Things: Medieval Theatre and the Sacrament of the Word."    a book of essays on medieval theatre

Short Stories

  1. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. "The fortunes of tragedy." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49.1 (January, 2019): 1-5.

Book Reviews

  1. Beckwith, S. Enter the Child: A Scene from Stanley Cavell's the Claim of Reason.  Philosophy and Literature 46.2 (October, 2022): 251-262.
  2. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories.  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 52.3 (September, 2022): 407-413.
  3. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. Conversions.  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48.3 (September, 2018): 433-434.
  4. Beckwith, S. Reading for our lives.  PMLA 132.2 (March, 2017): 331-336.
  5. Beckwith, S. Are there any women in Shakespeare's plays?: Fiction, representation, and reality in feminist criticism.  New Literary History 46.2 (March, 2015): 241-260.
  6. Bauer, N; Beckwith, S; Crary, A; Laugier, S; Moi, T; Zerilli, L. Introduction.  New Literary History 46.2 (March, 2015): v-xiii.
  7. Beckwith, S. Language goes on holiday: English allegorical drama and the virtue tradition. ed. Jennifer Herdt. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42.1 (December, 2012): 107-130.
  8. Beckwith, S. William Shakespeare and Stanley Cavell: Acknowledgement, Confession and Tragedy.  Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies. September, 2011.
  9. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. Reform and cultural revolution: Introduction.  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35.1 (January, 2005): 3-12.
  10. Beckwith, S; Aers, D. Reform and Cultural Revolution. ed. S. Beckwith and David Aers. JMEMS (2005).
  11. Beckwith, S. Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the forms of oblivion.  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33.2 (January, 2003): 261-280.
  12. Beckwith, S. Skepticism and the Tasks of Theater: Stanley Cavell and the Commitments of Speech.  SAQ (January, 2003).
  13. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. Introduction.  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31.3 (September, 2001): 443-444.
  14. Beckwith, S. Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern. ed. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. JMEMS 31.3 (Fall, 2001).
  15. Beckwith, S. The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France. By Christopher Elwood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 251 pp. $49.95 cloth..  Church History 69.1 (March, 2000): 183-185.
  16. Beckwith, S. Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. ed. Jones, G; Buckley, J. Directions in Modern TheologyDirections in Modern Theology, edited by Gregory Jones and James Buckley 15.2 (March, 1999).
  17. Beckwith, S. Introduction.  Modern Theology 15.2 (January, 1999): 113-114.
  18. Beckwith, S. Introduction - The cultural work of medieval theater: Ritual practice in England, 1350-1600.  JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 29.1 (1999): 1-5.
  19. Beckwith, S. The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600. ed. Beckwith, S. JMEMS 29.1 (Winter, 1999).
  20. Beckwith, S; Wharton AJ, . Body, Matter, Spirit. ed. Wharton, A. JMEMS, special issue 28.3 (Fall, 1998).
  21. Beckwith, S. English communities in transition, 1350-1600 - Introduction.  JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 28.2 (1998): 257-262.
  22. Beckwith, S. The Present of Past Things: The York Corpus Christi Theatre as a Contemporary Theater of Memory.  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Summer, 1996).
  23. Beckwith, S. Passionate Regulation: Enclosure, Ascesis and the Feminist Imaginary.  SAQ 93.4 (Fall, 1994): 803-824.
  24. Beckwith, S. Problems of authority in late medieval english mysticism: Language, agency, and authority in the book of margery kempe.  Exemplaria 4.1 (January, 1992): 171-199.
  25. Beckwith, S. Kingsley and the Women.  Review of Kingsley Amis’s ’The Old Devils,’ New Socialist.45 (January, 1987).
  26. Beckwith, S. Women sing the Blues.  Review of Wilfrid Mellers’ Angels of the Night, Women’s Review.14/15 (January, 1987).
  27. Beckwith, S. Steven Berkoff’s Theatre of the Grotesque.  Review of Sink the Belgrano, New Socialist.42 (October, 1986).
  28. Beckwith, S. Schlock up your Daughters.  Review of recent ’exploitation’ cinema, New Socialist.40 (July, 1986).
  29. Beckwith, S. Women beware Barker.  Review of Howard Barker’s Women Beware Women, New Socialist.39 (June, 1986).
  30. Beckwith, S. Review of Geoff Dyer’s Ways of Telling: The Works of John Berger.  City Limits.276 (January, 1986).

Other

  1. Beckwith, S. "The Mind’s Retreat From the Face." (January, 2003).
  2. Beckwith, S. "Program notes for Adrian Noble’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth for Barbican, Stratford, US tour.." (January, 2003).
  3. Beckwith, S. "Review of Michal Kobialka’s This is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages." Theatre Journal (January, 2003).
  4. Beckwith, S. "Review of Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages by George Duby; Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies, edited by Angeliki E. Laiou; Wife and Widow in Medieval England, edited by Sue Sheridan Walker." Medievalia et Humanistica (1996).