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Publications of Sarah Beckwith     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi.  U of Chicago P, (2001, Paperback ed. 2003).
  2.  Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings.  Routledge, (1996).

Papers/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. S. Beckwith, Medieval Penance, Reformation Repentance and Measure for Measure, in Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, edited by eds. Gordon mcMullan and David Matthews (Spring, 2007), pp. 193-204, Cambridge University Press  [author's comments].
  2. Preserving, Conserving, Deserving the Past: A Meditation on Ruin in Postwar Britain in five Fragments., in A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes, edited by Clare Lees and Gillian Overing (Winter, 2006), pp. p. 191-210, Penn State University Press, 2006 .
  3. Long review essay on Catholic Shakespeares, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (Winter, 2006) .
  4. The Play of Voice: Acknowledgment, Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Measure for Measure, in Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Robert Stilman (Spring, 2006), Brill .
  5. Sarah Beckwith, Office,Role,Persona: Martin Marprelate's Contribution to Theater History, in Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe edited by Walter Melion (2005)  [author's comments].
  6. S. Beckwith, Repairs in the Dark: Medieval Penance and Reformation Repentance in Measure for Measure, in Reading the Medieval in the Early Modern edited by David Mathews and Gordon MacMullan (2005), Cambridge University Press .
  7. S. Beckwith, The Play of Voice: Knowledge, Acknowledgment and Judgement in Measure for Measure, in Spectacle and Public Performance in Medieval Europe, edited by Robert Stillma (2005), Brill .
  8. Beckwith, Preserving, Deserving, Conserving the Past: A Meditation in Fragments on Ruin as Relic in Post War England, in eds, Lees and Overing, edited by Clare Lees and Gillian Overby (2004), State Press .
  9. Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion, JMEMS (Jan. 2003) (8000 words.) .
  10. Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York, in Festschrift for Derek Pearsall, edited by D. Aers, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer (2000) .
  11. "Pytussely beholde": Duffy, Consolation and the Contemporary Past, in Assays, edited by P. Knapp (1997) .
  12. The Present of Past Things: The York Corpus Christi Theatre as a Contemporary Theater of Memory, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (1996) .
  13. Sacrum Signum: Sacramentality and Dissent in York's Theatre of Corpus Christi, in Dissent in the Middle Ages, edited by Rita Copeland (1996), Cambridge UP .
  14. Ritual, Theatre and Social Space in York's Play of Corpus Christi, in Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth Century England, edited by Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace (1995), U of Minnesota P .
  15. Passionate Regulation: Enclosure, Ascesis and the Feminist Imaginary, SAQ, vol. 93 no. 4 (1994), pp. 803-824 .
  16. Making the World in York and the York Corpus Christi Cycle, in Framing Medieval Bodies, edited by Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin (1994), pp. 254-276, Manchester UP .
  17. Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Language, Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe, Exemplaria, vol. 4 (1 Mar. 1992), pp. 171-199 .
  18. Ritual, Church and Theatre: Medieval Dramas of the Sacramental Body, in Culture and History: Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing 1350-1600, edited by David Aers, Hemel Hempstead (1992), pp. 65-90, Harvester .
  19. The Power of Devils and the Hearts of Men: Notes Towards a Drama of Witchcraft, in Shakespeare and the Changing Curriculum, edited by Nigel Wheale and Lesley Aers (1991), pp. 143-161, Routledge .
  20. A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe, in Medieval Literature: History, Criticism and Ideology, edited by David Aers (1986), pp. 34-57 .

Book Reviews

  1.  "Review of Michal Kobialka's This is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages". Theatre Journal  (forthcoming).
  2.  "Review of Covert Operations: Secrecy in Middle English Literature". Studies in the Age of Chaucer  (1999).
  3.  "Review of The Body Broken: the Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth Century France". Church History  (1998).
  4.  "Review of Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society". Studies in Philology  (1996).
  5.  "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).
  6.  "Review of Feminist Approaches to the Medieval Body". Speculum  (1995).
  7.  "Review of The New Medievalism". Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 3.2 (1993).
  8.  "Women sing the Blues,". Review of Wilfrid Mellers' Angels of the Night, Women's Review :14/15 (Jan. 1987).
  9.  "Kingsley and the Women". Review of Kingsley Amis's 'The Old Devils,' New Socialist :45 (Jan. 1987).
  10.  "Steven Berkoff's Theatre of the Grotesque". Review of Sink the Belgrano, New Socialist :42 (Oct. 1986).
  11.  "Schlock up your Daughters". Review of recent 'exploitation' cinema, New Socialist :40 (July, 1986).
  12.  "Women beware Barker". Review of Howard Barker's Women Beware Women, New Socialist :39 (June, 1986).
  13.  "Review of Geoff Dyer's Ways of Telling: The Works of John Berger". City Limits :276 (Jan. 1986).

Other

  1. S. Beckwith and David Aers, Reform and Cultural Revolution, JMEMS (2005) .
  2. JMEMS (Jan. 2003) .
  3. Program notes for Adrian Noble's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth for Barbican, Stratford, US tour. (1993) .
  4. Skepticism and the Tasks of Theater: Stanley Cavell and the Commitments of Speech", SAQ (January, 2003) .
  5. The Mind's Retreat From the Face (January, 2003) .
  6. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds., --, JMEMS, vol. 32 no. 2 (Spring, 2002) .
  7. with D. Aers, eds., Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern, JMEMS, special issue, vol. 31 no. 3 (Fall, 2001) .
  8. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds., --, JMEMS, vol. 30 no. 2 (Spring, 2000) .
  9. The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600, JMEMS, special issue, vol. 29 no. 1 (Winter, 1999) .
  10. Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Modern Theology, vol. 15 no. 2 (Mar. 1999) (based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation.) .
  11. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds., --, JMEMS, vol. 29 no. 2 (Spring, 1999) .
  12. Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Directions in Modern Theology, edited by Gregory Jones and James Buckley (1999), Blackwell .
  13. S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds., Body, Matter, Spirit, JMEMS, special issue, vol. 28 no. 3 (Fall, 1998) .
  14. Communities in Transition, JMEMS, special issue, vol. 28 no. 2 (Spring, 1998) .
  15. How to Do Words with Things: Medieval Theatre and the Sacrament of the Word  (forthcoming; a book of essays on medieval theatre.) .


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