Welcome to CourtneyHerber.com!

I am an author, historian, and educator.

My scholarly interests are:

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

How I can help you:

  • For authors:
    • copy editing services
    • proofreading services
    • indexing

  • I also offer:
    • fundamental tech lessons/trainings (one-on-one or groups)
    • curriculum design
    • educational consulting

Please see my Services page for more details.

Current Scholarly Projects:

Monograph: 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.

Book Chapter: “The Three Body Problem: Lady Jane Grey and the Invisible Specter of Mary I on the Restoration Stage” will appear in Mid-Tudor Queenship

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

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Biographical Entries:

Anne Barne Carleill Walsingham – p. 185

Eleanor Windsor Brome – p. 409

Judith Lydon Smith Barrington p. 95