Patricia Wareh

Publications

Book

Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences. Manchester University Press, 2024.

Courteous Exchanges is part of the The Manchester Spenser series, focused on Spenser and Renaissance studies. Complementing Wareh's courses on Shakespeare's plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the book situates these essential authors in relation to each other as well as to issues of education, gender, religion, race, and aristocratic identity.

Peer-reviwed Articles

“Honorable Action Upstaged by Theatrical Wordplay in The Faerie Queene 2.4 and Much Ado About Nothing.” Modern Philology 114.2 (November 2016): 264-85.

“Literary Mirrors of Aristocratic Performance: Readers and Audiences of The Faerie Queene and The Winter’s Tale.” Renaissance Drama 43.1 (Spring 2015): 85-114.

“‘Base Respects of Thrift’: Hamlet and Slings & Arrows.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 17.2 (2015): 264-88.

“Reading Women: Chastity and Fictionality in Cymbeline.” Renaissance Papers (2013): 131-46.

“Competitions in Courtesy and Nobility: Nennio and the Reader’s Judgment in Book VI of The Faerie Queene.” Spenser Studies XXVII (2012): 163-91.

“Humble Presents: Gift-Giving in Spenser’s Dedicatory Sonnets.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 38.2 (Fall 2005): 119-132.

Recent Conference Papers

“The Rage of Lucrece: Revenging Roman Women,” Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender round table, Modern Language Association conference, New Orleans, Jan. 2025. Explores how tyrannical sexual predators deprive women of bodily autonomy, connecting Shakespeare's poetry to the story of the fall of Troy.

"Welcoming the Stranger: Troy in Spenser and Shakespeare," Race and Place in Spenser and Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association conference seminar, March, 2025. When two major Renaissance authors adapt the legendary story of the Trojan War, both emphasize the humanizing ability of identification with strangers, showing the value of hospitality and empathy as well exploring the question of how nationalistic projects constrain women’s agency.

These projects contribute to the course Prof. Wareh will team-teach with Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval literature, Dr. Amy Juarez, during Winter 2026: "Confronting the Canon: Troy Story."