Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Current projects
BOOKS
"Strange Spectacles: Shakespeare's Masques and Their Afterlives" examines how Shakespeare used court masques and how directors have used them since. By approaching these spectacles as dynamic conversations about "strangeness" and identity across time, I analyze views of gender, sexuality, race, and disability in the past four centuries of Shakespearean reception.​
"Performing Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare" introduces students and general readers to Shakespeare's all-male stage. How did it work? What do we know about how actors performed gender and sexuality? It is under contract with the Arden Shakespeare Insights series and coming your way in late 2027.​
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Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, under contract with Cambridge Shakespeare series.
Edition of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam for Digital Renaissance Editions, co-edited with Tamara Mahadin.​
"​Gender and Disability Gain in Fair Em, The Miller's Daughter of Manchester."
"Hester Pulter and Disability Poetics."
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PLAY EDITIONS
ARTICLES
Publications
BOOK
The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender. Cambridge University Press, 2016; paperback reissue, 2019.
"Chaste, Fair, and Bountiful: Marston, Fletcher, and the Countess of Huntingdon's Patronage." Early Theatre vol. 27, no. 1 (2024): 77-104. Winner of 2025 Prize for Best Article in Theatre History.
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"Female Masquers and Ambiguity in Timon of Athens." Renaissance Drama, vol. 51, no. 2, 2023, pp. 135-50.
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"Women Patrons of Drama." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith. Palgrave, 2022.
"Teaching Early Modern Women's Writing through Literary and Material Form." Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies, edited by Lara Dodds and Michelle Dowd. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 202-18.
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“Public/Private.” Shakespeare/Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance, edited by Claire M. L. Bourne. Bloomsbury (Arden Shakespeare), 2021, pp. 66-83.
“Digital Humanities and Early Modern Women’s Writing.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 107-16.
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"Women Dancing the Morris in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1613-2015." Shakespeare vol. 13, no. 2, 2017, pp. 164-79. (Download a copy here.)
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“Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English Pageantry.” The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern Literature and Culture, edited by Christina Luckyj and Niamh J. O’Leary. U of Nebraska P, 2017, pp. 107-25. Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women prize for best collaborative project.
“Elite Pageantry as Popular News: Elvetham House, John Wolfe and Country-House Entertainment in Print.” The Intellectual Culture of the British Country House, 1500-1700, edited by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, and Margaret Healy. Manchester UP, 2015, pp. 146-59.
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