Brett D. Hirsch, “The White Devil: The State of the Art.” The White Devil: A Critical Reader. Ed. Paul Frazer and Adam Hansen. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2016. 83–106.

Brett D. Hirsch, “Judaism and Jews.” The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. Vol. 1. Shakespeare’s World, 1500-1660, ed. Bruce R. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 709–20.

Brett D. Hirsch, “Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentlemen, and One English Queen.” Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage. Ed. Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 155-68.

Brett D. Hirsch, “The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice.” Staged Transgression in Shakespeare’s England. Ed. Rory Loughnane and Edel Semple. New York: Palgrave, 2013. 136-52.

Brett D. Hirsch, “Lycanthropy in Early Modern England: The Case of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.” Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Yasmin Haskell. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 297-337.

Brett D. Hirsch, “From Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture.” ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 131-72. Cursor Mundi 13.

Brett D. Hirsch, “ ‘What are these faces?’ Interpreting Bearded Women in Macbeth.” Renaissance Drama and Poetry in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham. Ed. Andrew Lynch and Anne M. Scott. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 91-114.

Brett D. Hirsch and Hugh Craig, “ ‘Mingled Yarn’: The State of Computing in Shakespeare 2.0.” Digital Shakespeares: Innovations, Interventions, Mediations, ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Hugh Craig. Special issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook 14 (2014): 3-35.

David Kennedy and Brett D. Hirsch, “Prime Suspect: William Cowper Prime in the Holy Land and the Identity of ‘An American’ in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1858.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148.2 (2016): 110-132.

One of the most popular writers for travellers to Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria in the later nineteenth century was William C…[Read more]

Brett D. Hirsch and Janelle Jenstad, “Beyond the Text: Digital Editions and Performance.” Shakespeare Bulletin 34.1 (2016): 107–27.

In the history of portraying Jews on the early modern stage, critics frequently cite Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London as an anomaly. The play’s first modern editor, H.S.D. Mithal, went so far as to describe Gerontus as ‘a character sui generis’, quite unlike Marlowe’s porridge-poisoning Machiavel, Shakespeare’s knife-whetting usurer, and…[Read more]

This review essay considers early modern dramatic authorship and canons in the context of two recent publications: an anthology of plays — William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013), edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen as a companion volume to the RSC Complete Works — and a monograph study — Jeremy Lopez’s Constructing…[Read more]

Brett D. Hirsch, “ ‘To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought’: Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama.” Early Theatre 16.2 (2013): 211-49.

Brett D. Hirsch, “The Kingdom Has Been Digitized: Electronic Editions of Renaissance Drama and the Long Shadows of Shakespeare and Print.” Literature Compass 8.9 (2011): 568-91.

Brett D. Hirsch, “Bringing Richard Brome Online.” Early Theatre 13.1 (2010): 137-53.

Brett D. Hirsch, “ ‘A Gentle and No Jew’: The Difference Marriage Makes in The Merchant of Venice.” Parergon, 23.1 (2006): 119–29.