Welcome to CourtneyHerber.com!

I am an author, historian, and educator.

I am interested in:

  • Theatre, Performance, & Power
  • Royal Studies & Consortship
  • Pop Culture, Memory, & Representation
  • Tudor & Stuart England/Great Britain
  • Spanish Golden Age theatre & honor plays

Current Projects:

Dissertation: Towards Consortship: Performing Ritual, Intercession, and Networking in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Book Chapter: “The Scholar Queen: The Life and Studies of Katherine of Aragon” will appear in English Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty, Volume 3 (Tudors & Stuarts).

Book Chapter: “Warrior Queen and Defender of the Faith: Mary I, Hero of the Catholic Chronicles of the Sixteenth Century” will appear in Images of Queen Mary I in Literature and Writing.

You can find my work:

Chapter 23:

En un infierno los dos: Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Calderon’s La cisma de Inglaterra

Chapter 16:

Let them eat cake, she says: Assessing Marie-Antoinette’s Image