Caroline Bicks

Books

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King (Hogarth/PRH, 2026).

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s World (Ashgate, 2003; Routledge, 2016).

Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for your Everyday Dramas, co-authored with Michelle Ephraim (Perigee/PRH, 2015).

The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610. Volume 2 of The History of British Women’s Writing. Co-edited, and Introduction co-authored with Jennifer Summit (Palgrave, 2010).

Articles

“Mary Ward and the Figuring of Female Networks,” in Representing Women: Portraiture, Power and Visual Culture in the British Literary Renaissance, ed. Yasmin Arshad and Chris Laoutaris. (Forthcoming, 2026, from Arden).

“Fear of the Queen’s Speed: Trauma and Departure in The Winter’s Tale. Humanities: 11 (2022): 156.

“Incited Minds: Rethinking Early Modern Girls,” Shakespeare Studies 44 (2016): 180-202.

“Repeat Performances: Mary Ward’s Girls on the International Stage,” Renaissance Drama 44.2 (2016): 201-215.

“ ‘Making the Stage my Profession’: Girlhood and Performance in Mary “Perdita” Robinson’s Memoirs,” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 9.1 (2014): 1-19.

“Producing Girls in Mary Ward’s Convent Schools,” in Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood, ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 139-156.

“Gender and Sexuality in Middleton’s Plays,” in Thomas Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett. Cambridge:     Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011. 263-270.

“Instructional Performances: Ophelia and the Staging of History,” in Performance and Pedagogy on the Early Modern Stage, ed. Kathryn McPherson and Katherine Moncrief. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 205-216.

“Staging the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess,” Studies in English Literature 49.2 (2009): 463-484.

“Stones Like Women’s Paps: Revising Gender in Jane Sharp’s Midwives Book,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 7.2 (2007): 1-27.

“Planned Parenthood: Minding the Quick Woman in All’s Well,” Modern Philology 103.3 (2006): 299-331.

“Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England.”  Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregivers in the Early Modern Period.  Ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 49-64.

“Backsliding at Ephesus: Shakespeare’s Diana and the Churching of Women.” Pericles: Critical Essays. Ed. David Skeele. New York: Garland, 2000. 205-227.