Publications of Sarah Beckwith :recent first combined bibtex listing:
Books
- Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. Routledge, 1996.
- Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi. U of Chicago P, 2001, Paperback ed. 2003.
Edited
- Communities in Transition. JMEMS, special issue 28.2 (Spring, 1998).
- S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. Body, Matter, Spirit. JMEMS, special issue 28.3 (Fall, 1998).
- Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Directions in Modern Theology, edited by Gregory Jones and James Buckley, Blackwell, 1999.
- S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. --. JMEMS 29.2 (Spring, 1999).
- Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Modern Theology 15.2 (Mar. 1999). (based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation)
- The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600. JMEMS, special issue 29.1 (Winter, 1999).
- S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. --. JMEMS 30.2 (Spring, 2000).
- with D. Aers, eds.. Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern. JMEMS, special issue 31.3 (Fall, 2001).
- S. Beckwith and A. Wharton, eds.. --. JMEMS 32.2 (Spring, 2002).
- JMEMS. Jan. 2003
- S. Beckwith and David Aers. Reform and Cultural Revolution. JMEMS (2005).
Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books
- "A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe." Medieval Literature: History, Criticism and Ideology. Ed. David Aers. 1986. 34-57.
- "The Power of Devils and the Hearts of Men: Notes Towards a Drama of Witchcraft." Shakespeare and the Changing Curriculum. Ed. Nigel Wheale and Lesley Aers. Routledge, 1991. 143-161.
- "Ritual, Church and Theatre: Medieval Dramas of the Sacramental Body." Culture and History: Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing 1350-1600. Ed. David Aers, Hemel Hempstead. Harvester, 1992. 65-90.
- "Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Language, Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe." Exemplaria 4 (1 Mar. 1992): 171-199.
- "Making the World in York and the York Corpus Christi Cycle." Framing Medieval Bodies. Ed. Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin. Manchester UP, 1994. 254-276.
- "Passionate Regulation: Enclosure, Ascesis and the Feminist Imaginary." SAQ 93.4 (1994): 803-824.
- "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. Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace. U of Minnesota P, 1995.
- "Sacrum Signum: Sacramentality and Dissent in York's Theatre of Corpus Christi." Dissent in the Middle Ages. Ed. Rita Copeland. Cambridge UP, 1996.
- "The Present of Past Things: The York Corpus Christi Theatre as a Contemporary Theater of Memory." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (1996)
- ""Pytussely beholde": Duffy, Consolation and the Contemporary Past." Assays. Ed. P. Knapp. 1997.
- "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. D. Aers, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer. 2000.
- "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion." JMEMS (Jan. 2003) 8000 words
- Beckwith. "Preserving, Deserving, Conserving the Past: A Meditation in Fragments on Ruin as Relic in Post War England." eds, Lees and Overing. Ed. Clare Lees and Gillian Overby. State Press, 2004.
- S. Beckwith. "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.
- S. Beckwith. "The Play of Voice: Knowledge, Acknowledgment and Judgement in Measure for Measure." Spectacle and Public Performance in Medieval Europe. Ed. Robert Stillma. Brill, 2005.
- Sarah Beckwith. "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. [author's comments]
- "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.
- "Preserving, Conserving, Deserving the Past: A Meditation on Ruin in Postwar Britain in five Fragments.." A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes. Ed. Clare Lees and Gillian Overing. Penn State University Press, 2006, Winter, 2006. p. 191-210.
- "Long review essay on Catholic Shakespeares." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (Winter, 2006)
- S. Beckwith. "Medieval Penance, Reformation Repentance and Measure for Measure." Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Ed. eds. Gordon mcMullan and David Matthews. Cambridge University Press, Spring, 2007. 193-204. [author's comments]
Book Reviews
- Review of Geoff Dyer's Ways of Telling: The Works of John Berger. City Limits.276 (Jan. 1986).
- Women beware Barker. Review of Howard Barker's Women Beware Women, New Socialist.39 (June, 1986).
- Schlock up your Daughters. Review of recent 'exploitation' cinema, New Socialist.40 (July, 1986).
- Steven Berkoff's Theatre of the Grotesque. Review of Sink the Belgrano, New Socialist.42 (Oct. 1986).
- Women sing the Blues,. Review of Wilfrid Mellers' Angels of the Night, Women's Review.14/15 (Jan. 1987).
- Kingsley and the Women. Review of Kingsley Amis's 'The Old Devils,' New Socialist.45 (Jan. 1987).
- Review of The New Medievalism. ed. Marina Borwnlee, Kevin Brownlee and Stephen Nichols. Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature. 3.21993
- Review of Feminist Approaches to the Medieval Body. ed. Sarah Stanbury and Linda Lomperis. Speculum. 1995
- Review of Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society. Studies in Philology. 1996
- 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).
- Review of The Body Broken: the Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth Century France. Church History. 1998.
- Review of Covert Operations: Secrecy in Middle English Literature. Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 1999.
- Review of Michal Kobialka's This is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages. Theatre Journal (forthcoming).
Other
- "How to Do Words with Things: Medieval Theatre and the Sacrament of the Word." (). forthcoming; a book of essays on medieval theatre
- "Program notes for Adrian Noble's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth for Barbican, Stratford, US tour.." (1993).
- "Skepticism and the Tasks of Theater: Stanley Cavell and the Commitments of Speech"." SAQ (January, 2003).
- "The Mind's Retreat From the Face." (January, 2003).
