Rory Loughnane & Edel Semple 
Staged Normality in Shakespeare’s England [PDF ebook] 

1. Introduction: Stages of Normality – Rory Loughnane.- 2. Circling the Square: Geometry, Masculinity, and Norms of
Antony and Cleopatra - Carla Mazzio.- 3. Normal School:
Merry Wives and the Future of a Feeling – Elizabeth Hanson.- 4. Regulating Time and the Self in Shakespearean Drama – Kristine Johansen.- 5. Under the Skin: A Neighbourhood Ethnography of Leather and Early Modern Drama – Julie Sanders.- 6. Shakespeare’s Strange Conventionality – Brett Gamboa.- 7. Transgressive Normality and Normal Transgression in
Sir Thomas More - Edel Semple.- 8. Staging Inheritance and the Lost Child in Shakespeare’s Romances – Michelle M. Dowd.- 9. The eunuch in disguise in
Twelfth Night and
The Tempest.- 10. Everyday Murder and Household Work in Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies – Emma Whipday.- 11. Children, Normality, and Domestic Tragedy – Emily O’Brien.- 12. Feminine Transgression and Normal Domesticity – Stephen Guy-Bray.- 13. Afterword – Frances E. Dolan.

Rory Loughnane is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-), for which he edited more than ten plays. He has co-edited four essay collections, as well as the anthology, The Memory Arts in Renaissance England (2016).
Edel Semple is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She is co-editor of Staged Transgression in Shakespeare’s England (2013), and of a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies on European women (2017). She has recently published on gender in Shakespeare on film, prostitution in early modern literature, and the critical history of early modern drama.