Distracted subjects: madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture

Initiating madness onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy

Reading the language of distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear

Diagnosing women's melancholy: case histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen

Destablizing lovesickness, gender, and sexuality: Twelfth Night and As You Like It

Confining madmen and transgressing boundaries: The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night

Rethinking confinement in Early Modern England: The place of bedlam in history and drama.