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.

Brett D. Hirsch, “ ‘In the likeness of a Jew’: Kabbalah and The Merchant of Venice.” The Ben Jonson Journal, 12 (2005): 119-40.