2022

Purcell, Stephen (2022) “I am here as a tourist” : on being a tourist-spectator. In: Ormsby, Robert and Pye, Valerie Clayman, (eds.) Shakespeare and tourism. Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies . Routledge. ISBN 9780367152048

Purcell, Stephen (2022) Playing with the audience in Othello. In: Smith, Simon and Whipday, Emma, (eds.) Playing and Playgoing: Actor, Audience and Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, pp. 223-241. ISBN 9781108773775

2021

Purcell, Stephen (2021) Space : Locus and Platea in modern Shakespearean performance. In: Kirwan, Peter and Prince, Kathryn, (eds.) The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance. The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks . London ; New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350080676

Purcell, Stephen (2021) The player’s game : the activity of the player in early modern drama. In: Bloom, Gina and Bishop, Tom and Lin, Erika T., (eds.) Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England. The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. (Submitted)

2019

Purcell, Stephen and Prescott, Paul (2019) Shakespeare Performances in England, 2018. In: Smith, Emma, (ed.) Shakespeare Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 284-324. ISBN 9781108588072

2018

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Shakespeare Performances in England, 2017. In: Holland, Peter, (ed.) Shakespeare Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 305-343. ISBN 9781108557177

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Who are we talking about when we talk about the audience? In: Banks, Fiona, (ed.) Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences. The Arden Shakespeare . London: The Arden Shakespeare. ISBN 9781474274005

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Are Shakespeare's plays always metatheatrical? Shakespeare Bulletin , 36 (1). pp. 19-35. doi:10.1353/shb.2018.0002 ISSN 0748-2558. [ 🗎 Public].

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Performing the public at Shakespeare's Globe. Shakespeare, 14 (1). pp. 51-63. doi:10.1080/17450918.2018.1439091 ISSN 1745-0918. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (✓) hoa:511 ]

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Whose experiment is it anyway? : some models for practice-as-research in Shakespeare Studies. In: Castaldo, Annalisa and Knight, Rhonda, (eds.) Stage Matters : Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance. Shakespeare and the Stage . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 9781683931492

2017

Purcell, Stephen (2017) 'It's all a bit of a risk' : reformulating 'liveness' in twenty-first century performances of Shakespeare. In: Bulman, James C., (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199687169

Purcell, Stephen (2017) Shakespeare Performances in England, 2016. In: Holland, Peter, (ed.) Shakespeare Survey. Cambridge University Press, pp. 287-325. ISBN 9781108277648

Purcell, Stephen (2017) Practice-as-research and original practices. Shakespeare Bulletin , 35 (3). pp. 425-443. doi:10.1353/shb.2017.0033 ISSN 0748-2558. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (✓) hoa:511 ]

Purcell, Stephen (2017) Shakespeare in the theatre : Mark Rylance at the Globe. Shakespeare in the Theatre . London: The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472581747

Purcell, Stephen (2017) Shakespeare in amateur production. In: Levenson, Jill L. and Ormsby, Robert , (eds.) The Shakespearean World. London: Routledge, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781315778341

2016

Purcell, Stephen (2016) Synecdoches and symbols : fictional performances of King Lear. Litteraria Pragensia : Studies in Literature and Culture, 26 (52). pp. 58-76. ISSN 0862-8424. [ 🗎 Public].

Purcell, Stephen (2016) Shakespeare performances in England (and Wales), 2015. In: Holland, Peter , (ed.) Shakespeare Survey. Cambridge University Press, pp. 394-431. ISBN 9781316670408

Purcell, Stephen (2016) Editing for performance or documenting performance?: exploring the relationship between early modern text and clowning. Shakespeare Bulletin , 34 (1). pp. 5-27. ISSN 0748-2558. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (✓) hoa:511 ]

2015

Purcell, Stephen (2015) Shakespeare, spectatorship, and the “olympic spirit”. In: Prescott, Paul and Sullivan, Erin, (eds.) Shakespeare on the Global Stage. Arden Shakespeare . London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472520340

Purcell, Stephen (2015) The international language of physical theatre at the 2012 globe to globe festival. Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 151 . pp. 101-115. ISSN 1430-2527.

2014

Purcell, Stephen (2014) The impact of new forms of public performance. In: Carson, Christie and Kirwan, Peter, (eds.) Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-215. ISBN 9781107064362

2013

Purcell, Stephen (2013) “What country, Friends, is this?” : cultural identity and the World Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare Survey, Volume 66 . pp. 155-165. ISSN 0080-9152.

Purcell, Stephen (2013) Touch and taboo in Rah-e-Sabz' the comedy of errors. In: Bennett, Susan and Carson, Christie, (eds.) Shakespeare beyond English : A Global Experiment. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107674691

Purcell, Stephen (2013) Shakespeare in practice : the audience. London : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. (In Press)

2012

Purcell, Stephen (2012) Marcello Magni. In: Russell Brown, John and Ewert, Kevin, (eds.) The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare. London : Routledge, pp. 159-174. ISBN 9780415483025

Purcell, Stephen (2012) Webster : the white devil. Shakespeare handbooks- Shakespeare's contemporaries . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230279766

2011

Purcell, Stephen (2011) Shakespeare on television. In: Thornton Burnett, Mark and Streete , Adrian and Wray, Ramona, (eds.) The Edinburgh companion to Shakespeare and the arts. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748635238

2010

Purcell, Stephen (2010) “That's not Shakespeare”: policing the boundaries of “Shakespeare” in reviews. Shakespeare, 6 (3). pp. 364-370. doi:10.1080/17450918.2010.497865 ISSN 1745-0918.

2009

Purcell, Stephen (2009) Popular Shakespeare : simulation and subversion on the modern stage. Palgrave Shakespeare studies. . Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230577039