About courtneyherber.com/Mostly Monarchy

I am a scholar, author, and educator.

My primary research interests include theatre, performance, queenship & consortship, royal studies, popular culture, and gender studies in early modern England.  I have also presented work on honor plays and Spanish Golden Age theatre as well as on the Werburgh Street Theatre, the first purpose-built theatre in Ireland. My methodology is well situated in history but I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose focus on drama, performance, and representation places me a bit outside of ‘traditional’ history.

You can find my research published in these (dare I say) amazing collections! More to come!

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
Chapter 3: “More to Be Feared Than Fearful Herself”: Contrasting Representations of Mary I in Sixteenth-Century Chronicles and Firsthand Accounts
Chapter 3: Katherine of Aragon: Diligent Diplomat and Learned Queen
Chapter 7: Newton’s Three Body Problem Acted on the Stage: Mary I and Lady Jane Grey in Restoration and Early Georgian Theater
Biographical Entries for: Anne Barne Carleill Walsingham p. 185; Eleanor Windsor Brome p. 409; and Judith Lydon Smith Barrington p. 95