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Rebecca Yearling's Outputs (14)

The Doubtful Heir (2022)
Book Chapter
Yearling, R. (2022). The Doubtful Heir. In The Complete Works of James Shirley

Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir (2022)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2022). Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir. https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.15645

Critics have frequently argued about whether early modern plays like Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night are ultimately subversive or conservative in their attitudes towards gender and sexuality. Stephen Greenblatt, for example, claims that Twelfth Night’s c... Read More about Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir.

“Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy (2020)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2020). “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy. Shakespeare, 16(4), 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2020.1787496

Any discussion of comedy as a dramatic form is rendered difficult by the fact that the term "comedy" has two quite separate meanings: a work that is intended to make spectators laugh and a work that has a happy ending. In the early modern period, lit... Read More about “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy.

Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature (2019)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2019). Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/eza9-7a41

This paper explores how Kolb’s experiential learning cycle can be used as a way of structuring seminars in English literature in order to bring students towards a greater understanding of literary texts. Using the example of teaching Lord Byron’s poe... Read More about Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature.

Emotion, cognition and spectator response to the plays of Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2018). Emotion, cognition and spectator response to the plays of Shakespeare. Cultural History, 7(2), 129-144. https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2018.0170

Recapturing what early modern spectators thought and felt when attending the theatre has for some years been a kind of Holy Grail for scholars of Renaissance drama. As Myhill and Low point out in Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama (2011), a... Read More about Emotion, cognition and spectator response to the plays of Shakespeare.