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Reform and order on the Elizabethan stage: Sir Thomas More to Hamlet (2018)
Journal Article
Clare, J. (2018). Reform and order on the Elizabethan stage: Sir Thomas More to Hamlet. Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 154,

Im Zuge des religious turn in Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit ist bisher die Bedeutung der Zensur für die Durchsetzung konfessioneller Konformität wenig berücksichtigt worden. Gleichzeitig haben Arbeiten zur Theaterzensur deren Bedeutung für die Gestaltun... Read More about Reform and order on the Elizabethan stage: Sir Thomas More to Hamlet.

From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures (2018)
Book
Clare, J. (Ed.). (2018). From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089688.001.0001

This volume challenges a traditional period divide of 1660, exploring continuities with the decades of civil war, the Republic and Restoration and shedding new light on religious, political and cultural conditions before and after the restoration of... Read More about From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures.

Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80 (2018)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. L. (2018). Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80. In J. Clare (Ed.), From republic to restoration: legacies and departures (102-123). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526107510.00012

This chapter analyses early-modern English women writers and the number and patterns of their publication of religious and secular texts between 1640 and 1680. The chapter’s focus is on the impact of the English Civil War and Cromwellian Republic on... Read More about Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80.

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (2014)
Book
Clare, J. (2014). Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626934

Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and comp... Read More about Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre.

Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate (2012)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2012). Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate. The Oxford handbook of literature and the English Revolution (498 - 515). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560608.013.0027

This article begins with a discussion of the parliamentary-Puritan opposition to theatre during the Civil Wars and after the regicide. It then turns to the restoration of the monarchy in 1653, and the efforts of Richard Flecknoe and William Davenant... Read More about Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate.

Censorship (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). Censorship. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (276 - 294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0016

This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved... Read More about Censorship.

The theatre and political control (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). The theatre and political control. Thomas Middleton in context (176 - 184). Cambridge University Press

Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V (2010)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2010). Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V. In P. Holland (Ed.), Shakespeare Survey 63 (102-113). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521769150.010

More than any other playwright of the period, Shakespeare dramatized English history and in so doing experimented with different ways of representing the past. Within as well as between the tetralogies of pre-Tudor history, spanning at least a decade... Read More about Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V.

The "histories" of I Henry VI (2008)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2008). The "histories" of I Henry VI. Shakespeare in Europe, History and Memory (79 - 89). Jagiellonian University Press

Shakespeare and the Irish writer
Book
Clare, J., & O'Neill, S. Shakespeare and the Irish writer. The University of Hull

This collection of essays defines a literary cultural field of study: Shakespeare in relation to critical thinking of major Irish writers. 8500 word introductory essay co-written by Janet Clare maps out the cultural centrality of Shakespeare in Irish... Read More about Shakespeare and the Irish writer.

Shakespeare and paradigms of early modern authorship
Journal Article
Clare, J. Shakespeare and paradigms of early modern authorship. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 1(1), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-10641

The essay examines current thinking on early modern authorship within the competitive economies of the theatre and publishing industries. In the wake of Foucault's seminal essay, 'What is an Author?', there has been much investigation of the status,... Read More about Shakespeare and paradigms of early modern authorship.