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Canonical Misogyny: Dramaturgies of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Performance, Edinburgh University Press (2024)
‘Disrupting Atrocious Dramaturgies in Measure for Measure’, for Atrocity and Early Modern Drama, eds. Sarah Johnson and Georgina Lucas, Bloomsbury Arden (2025).
“(Un)Veiling Isabella in Measure for Measure” in The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation, eds. Louise Geddes, Kathryn Vomero Santos, and Geoffrey Way, Edinburgh University Press (2024).
“Incomplete Dramaturgies,” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.1 (2022), pp. 1-22.
“Resources for teaching The Changeling” in Mark Hutchings (ed.), The Changeling: A Critical Reader, London: Bloomsbury Arden (2019).
“@Shakespeare and @TwasFletcher: Performances of Authority,” Humanities 8.1 (2019), 46 [open access]
“Writing the collaborative process: Measure (Still) for Measure, Shakespeare, and rape culture,” PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research 2.1 (2018), Article 6 [open access]
“Multivalence: The Young Vic and a postmodern Changeling,” in Kara Reilly (ed.), Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (2017).
“The Changeling presented by Shakespeare’s Globe at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, January 2015,” Early Modern Literary Studies 19.2 (2017) [critical review; open access].
“‘Cannot I keep that secret?’: Editing and performing asides in The Changeling,” Shakespeare Bulletin 34.1 (2016), pp. 29-45.
EDITORIAL PROJECTS
Borrower and Lenders 13.1, special issue: ‘Shakespeare and Politics Between Media’ (co-edited with Sally Barnden). [published]
‘New Directions in Shakespeare Performance’ (co-curated with C.K. Ash), in the The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance (Editors: Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince). [published 2021]
As You Like It for the Arden Performance Editions (General Editors: Abigail Rokison-Woodall, Michael Dobson, and Simon Russell Beale). [available for pre-order now; expected publication October 2021].
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
‘Developing a Dramaturgical Praxis Through Repetitive R&D’, for Research and Development in British Theatre (co-authored with Rebecca Benzie and Harry Kingscott; in production with Bloomsbury, expected publication 2025)
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Genderqueer Casts, co-authored with Rho Chung. Proposal solicited for Bloomsbury Arden by Stephen Purcell, on behalf of the series editors.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
A full list of publications can be found here.
Author is N.J. Williams except where otherwise noted.
If you really must, you can read my PhD thesis at this link.
