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Norrie, Aidan. Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule. Bradford: Arc Humanities Press, forthcoming 2023.
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Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, J.L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, J.L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
Norrie, Aidan, and Sophie Shorland, eds. “Performing Royal Power in Premodern Europe.” Special issue, Royal Studies Journal 8, no. 1 (2021).
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Norrie, Aidan, and Mark Houlahan, eds. New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections. Berlin: De Gruyter / Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
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Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie, eds. Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations.
New York: Routledge, 2020.
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Hopkins, Lisa, and Aidan Norrie, eds. Women
on the Edge in Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
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Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie, eds. From
Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past.
New York: Routledge, 2019.
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Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices of Shakespearean adaptations are frequently products of playful, and sometimes irreverent, engagements that allow new ‘Shakespeares’ to emerge, revealing Shakespeare’s ongoing impact in popular culture. Significantly, this collection explores the role of play in the construction of meaning in Shakespearean adaptations—adaptations of both the works of Shakespeare, and of Shakespeare the man—and contributes to the growing scholarly interest in playfulness both past and present. The chapters in Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations engage with the diverse ways that play is used in Shakespearean adaptations on stage, screen, and page, examining how these adaptations draw out existing humour in Shakespeare’s works, the ways that play is used as a pedagogical aid to help explain complex language, themes, and emotions found in Shakespeare’s works, and more generally how play and playfulness can make Shakespeare ‘relatable,’ ‘relevant,’ and entertaining for successive generations of audiences and readers. Reviewed by Jennifer E. Nicholson in Parergon 38, no. 2 (2021):
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Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women’s lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds—such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent—this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women. Reviewed by Elisa Oh in Early Modern Women 14.2 (Spring 2020):
Reviewed by Jessica L. Malay in English Historical Review 135, no. 577 (December 2020):
Reviewed by Britt Eyre-Mitchell in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 20.3 (Summer 2020):
Reviewed by Lotte Fikkers in Journal of Early Modern History 25.5 (October 2021):
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From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture—such as the allusions to John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and the impact of intertextual references and internet fandom on the BBC’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses—the contributors illustrate how cinematic, televisual, artistic, and literary depictions of the historical and cultural past not only re-purpose the past in varying ways, but also build on a history of adaptations that audiences have come to know and expect. From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past analyses the way that the medieval and early modern periods are used in modern adaptations, and how these adaptations both reflect contemporary concerns, and engage with a history of intertextuality and intervisuality. Reviewed by Stephanie Russo in Parergon 37.1 (2020):
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Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, J.L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, J.L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds. Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
Norrie, Aidan. “Biblical Typology and Royal Power in Elizabethan Civic Entertainments.” Royal Studies Journal 8, no. 1 (2021): 54–78.
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Norrie, Aidan, and Sophie Shorland. “Introduction: Performing Royal Power in Premodern Europe.” Royal Studies Journal 8, no. 1 (2021): 1–8.
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Norrie, Aidan. “James Shirley’s The Cardinal and Archbishop Laud.” Notes and Queries 67, no. 3 (September 2020): 374–378.
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Norrie, Aidan. “Kings’ Stomachs and Concrete Elephants: Gendering Elizabeth I through the Tilbury Speech.” Royal Studies Journal 6, no. 2 (2019): 183–203.
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Norrie, Aidan. “The Bishop and the Queen; Or, Why Did the Bishop of Carlisle Crown Elizabeth I?” Northern History 56, nos. 1–2 (2019): 25–45.
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Norrie, Aidan. “Child Actors in the 1578 Norwich Civic Entertainment.” Shakespeare Bulletin 37, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 167–185.
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Website]
Norrie, Aidan. "Elizabeth I and the 'Proud
Prelate.'" Notes and Queries 65, no. 4 (December 2018):
504–506.
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Houlahan, Mark, and Aidan Norrie. "Shakespeare's Antony
and Cleopatra and Plutarch's Life of Demetrius."
Notes and Queries 65, no. 4 (December 2018): 539–542.
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Website]
Norrie, Aidan. "Elizabeth I as Judith: Reassessing
the Apocryphal Widow's Appearance in Elizabethan Royal
Iconography." Renaissance Studies 31, no. 5 (November
2017): 707–722.
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Website]
Norrie, Aidan. "'Courageous, Zealous, Learned, Wise,
and Chaste' – Queen Elizabeth I's Biblical Analogies After Her
Death." Royal Studies Journal 2, no. 2 (2015): 25–44.
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Norrie, Aidan. “What Mary Did First: Re-Assessing the Biblical Analogies of England’s First Female King.” In Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations, edited by Jessica S. Hower and Valerie Schutte, 111–133. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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Norrie, Aidan. "'Our Queen is Comming to the Town': Child Actors and Counsel in the Elizabethan Progresses of 1574 and 1578." In New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections, edited by Aidan Norrie and Mark Houlahan, 97–116. Berlin: De Gruyter / Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
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Norrie, Aidan, and Mark Houlahan. "Introduction: Edges, Spaces, and Intersections in Early Modern English Drama." In New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections, edited by Aidan Norrie and Mark Houlahan, 1–15. Berlin: De Gruyter / Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
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Norrie, Aidan. "William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship?" In Playfulness in Shakespearean
Adaptations, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie, 178–200. New
York: Routledge, 2020.
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Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie. "'Did Shakespeare Really Write This Racy Stuff?': Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations." In Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations, edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie, 1–16. New York: Routledge, 2020.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Female Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt."
In The
Routledge History of Monarchy, edited by Elena
Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Chris Jones, Zita Rohr, and Russell
Martin, 501–517. New York: Routledge, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan, and Lisa Hopkins. "Introduction:
Early Modern European Women and the Edge." In Women
on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, edited by Lisa
Hopkins and Aidan Norrie, 15–25. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University
Press, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Cecilia of Sweden: Princess,
Margravine, Countess, Regent." In Women
on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, edited by Lisa
Hopkins and Aidan Norrie, 179–202. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University
Press, 2019.
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Gerzic, Marina, and Aidan Norrie. "Introduction:
Medievalism and Early-Modernism in Adaptations of the English
Past." In From
Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past,
edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie, 1–17. New York:
Routledge, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan. "The Queen, the Bishop, the Virgin,
and the Cross: Catholicism versus Protestantism in Elizabeth."
In From
Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past,
edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie, 226–243. New York:
Routledge, 2019.
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Norrie, Aidan. "Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand." In A Companion to Global Queenship, edited by Elena
Woodacre, 109–121. Bradford: Arc Humanities Press, 2018.
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Norrie, Aidan. "A Man? A Woman? A Lesbian? A Whore?:
Queen Elizabeth I and the Cinematic Subversion of Gender." In Premodern
Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in
Popular Culture, edited by Janice North, Karl C.
Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, 319–340. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2018.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain, edited by Eduardo Olid Guerrero and Esther Fernández. Royal Studies Journal 8, no. 2 (2021), 240–242.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of The Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, 1625: Celebrations and Controversy, edited by Marie-Claude Canova-Green and Sara J. Wolfson. Renaissance Studies (2021).
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage, edited by Valerie Schutte and Estelle Paranque. Parergon 37, no. 2 (2020): 246–248.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Early Modern
Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans: English
Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth, by Brian
C. Lockey. Parergon 36, no. 2 (2019): 259–260.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Unexpected Heirs in
Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, edited by
Valerie Schutte. Royal Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (2019):
129–132.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Baptist Women's
Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680, by Rachel
Adcock. Parergon 35, no. 2 (2018): 243.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Cromwell: The
Protector, by David Horspool. Royal Studies Journal
5, no. 2 (2018): 175–177.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of The Politics of
Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707, edited by
Jacqueline Rose. Parergon 35, no. 1 (2018): 201–203.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Anna of Denmark and
Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens, by
Susan Dunn-Hensley. Reviews in History (2018),
doi:10.14296/RiH/2014/2253.
[Published Open Access]
Norrie, Aidan. Review of Elizabeth I's Italian
Letters, edited and translated by Carlo M. Bajetta. Royal
Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2018): 206–208.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of History, Fiction, and
"The Tudors": Sex, Politics, Power, and Artistic License in the
Showtime Television Series, edited by William B. Robison. Royal
Studies Journal 4, no. 2 (2017): 258–262.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Royal Mothers and
Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from
Antiquity to the Early Modern Era, edited by Elena Woodacre
and Carey Fleiner. Parergon 33, no. 2 (2016): 178–180.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Bishops and Power in
Early Modern England, by Marcus K. Harmes. Parergon
33, no. 2 (2016): 187.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Boudica's Odyssey in
Early Modern England, by Samantha Frénée-Hutchins. Parergon
33, no. 1 (2016): 266–267.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Reformation Unbound:
Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525-1590, by Karl
Gunther. Parergon 33, no. 1 (2016): 268–269.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Supernatural and
Secular Power in Early Modern England, edited by Marcus
Harmes and Victoria Bladen. Parergon 32, no. 2 (2015):
348–350.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Renaissance Drama on
the Edge, by Lisa Hopkins. Parergon 32, no. 2
(2015): 384–385.
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Norrie, Aidan. Review of Public Religious
Disputation in England, 1558-1626, by Joshua Rodda. Parergon
32, no. 2 (2015): 299–300.
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Blog post: ‘Celebrating the Accession Day of Elizabeth I of England, 1558 and Beyond’
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Podcast Episode: ‘Queen Elizabeth on Progress’
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‘Source Immersion’: A blog post about my research trip to the Newberry Library, Chicago.
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Interview for the Royal Studies Journal
blog.
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