Darlene Farabee

Darlene Farabee is the author of Shakespeare’s Staged Spaces and Playgoers’ Perceptions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-editor of and contributor to Early Modern Drama in Performance (U of Delaware P, 2015). Dr. Farabee has also published articles and book chapters on a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, from Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second to John Milton's Paradise Lost.

British literature (to 1800), Shakespeare, early modern drama, contemporary drama.

Early modern drama; early modern narratives of travel; non-dramatic narrative verse including Spenser and Milton, histories of theatrical performance; theories of movement and perception; theories of metaphor.

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Farabee, Darlene. "The Critical Backstory: Edward II's Critics in History to 1990". In Edward II: A Critical Reader , editors Kirk Melnikoff, 21-42. London: Bloomsbury Arden, 2017.
Farabee, Darlene. “Review of Shakespeare's Storms by Gwilym Jones”. Vol. 69, Iss. 3 Renaissance Quarterly , 2016.
Farabee, Darlene. Early Modern Drama in Performance., Editors Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, Bradley Ryner. Newark DE: U of Delaware P, 2015.
Farabee, Darlene. Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoer's Perceptions. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Farabee, Darlene. "A walking shadow": place, perception, and disorientation in Macbeth”. In Macbeth: The State of Play, editors Ann Thompson. London: Arden/ Bloomsbury, 2014.
Farabee, Darlene. "Review of How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text by Eugene Giddens" . This Rough Magic, 2012.
Farabee, Darlene. "Review of Teaching the Early Modern Period edited by Derval Conroy and Danielle Clark". This Rough Magic, 2012.
Farabee, Darlene. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello” . Vol. 30, Iss. 2 Shakespeare Bulletin, 2012.
Farabee, Darlene. “Two productions of Henry V” , 618-25. Vol. 30, Iss. 4 Shakespeare Bulletin, 2012.
Farabee, Darlene. “Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra.”. Vol. 29, Iss. 2 Shakespeare Bulletin, 2011.
Farabee, Darlene. “The Case for the Duchess: Teaching Webster’s Duchess of Malfi in the Undergraduate English Classrooms.” . Vol. Winter 2011 This Rough Magic, 2011.
Farabee, Darlene. “Review of A Brave Vessel.”, 76-78. Vol. 1, Iss. 1 The Nautilus, 2010.
Farabee, Darlene. “The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed.”, 496-502. Vol. 28, Iss. 4 Shakespeare Bulletin, 2010.
Farabee, Darlene. “Othello and Macbeth.”, 637-644. Vol. 27, Iss. 4 Shakespeare Bulletin, 2009.
Farabee, Darlene. “‘Knowledge is as food’: food, digestion, and illness in Milton’s Paradise Lost”. In You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate, editors Annette Magid, 154-67. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars P, 2008.

Farabee, Darlene, Seminar: Displacement in Renaissance Drama. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston MA. (March 21, 2025)
Farabee, Darlene, Voice, tone, and error in Much Ado About Nothing. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Portland OR. (April 12, 2024)
Farabee, Darlene, Delay, disguise, and stagecraft in John Fletcher’s The Chances (1617) . Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis MN. (March 30, 2023)
Farabee, Darlene, Scholars in Conversation: Othello . Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival, Prentis Park, Vermillion, SD. (June 18, 2022)
Farabee, Darlene, Teaching Shakespeare . Presented at the SDCTE Conference, Chamberlain, SD. (June 08, 2022)
Farabee, Darlene, Seminar Leader: Divided Shakespeare . Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL. (April 07, 2022)
Farabee, Darlene, Scholars in Conversation: Twelfth Night . Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival, Prentis Park, Vermillion, SD. (June 19, 2021)
Farabee, Darlene, Outdoor Shakespeare on the United States Plains. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Virtual. (April 02, 2021)
Farabee, Darlene, Distance and Desire in John Massinger's Plays. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO. (April 16, 2020)
Farabee, Darlene, Stage Properties and Meta-Travel: Early Modern On-stage Spectacles of Transport. Presented at the Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia PA. (April 03, 2020)
Farabee, Darlene, Being Human: Exploring Identity in Early Modern Transatlantic Drama through Dramaturgy, Performance, & High School Outreach. Presented at the Modern Language Association, Seattle WA. (January 12, 2020)
Farabee, Darlene, The Devices of Travel and the Drama of Shakespeare's Time. Presented at the Humanities Research Forum, Vermillion SD. (November 21, 2019)
Farabee, Darlene, Midsummer Night's Dream and Production. Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Roundtable (June 08, 2019)
Farabee, Darlene, Confinement and Movement in John Webster’s The White Devil. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.. (April 18, 2019)
Farabee, Darlene, Lyly's Campaspe (1583): Stagecraft and the Development of Tragicomedy. Presented at the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Albequerque NM. (November 02, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene: Nostalgia, Allegory, Fantasy. Presented at the Colloquium Series on Literature (October 29, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Playing Parts in Hamlet. Presented at the John R. Milton Writers' Conference, Vermillion SD. (October 27, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Session Chair: 'Marlowe's Afterlives' . Presented at the MSA Eighth International Conference, Wittenberg, Germany. (July 10, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Richard III and Production. Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Roundtable (June 09, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Phoebe and Leander: The Traces of Myth in As You Like It. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles. (March 28, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Shakespearean echoes in Shelley’s Frankenstein. Presented at the Frankenstein 200! Conference (February 27, 2018)
Farabee, Darlene, Moderator Paper Session IX. Presented at the Blackfriars Conference, Staunton VA. (October 27, 2017)
Farabee, Darlene, Drama, Play, and the Stage. Presented at the Colloquium Series on Literature (September 18, 2017)
Farabee, Darlene, The Comedy of Errors and Production. Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Roundtable (June 10, 2017)
Farabee, Darlene, 'Fathom Deep': Understanding and Measurement in Early Modern Drama. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta. (April 06, 2017)
Farabee, Darlene, The British Renaissance and the Forms of Poetry. Presented at the Colloquium Series on Literature (September 19, 2016)
Farabee, Darlene, The Winter's Tale and Production. Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Roundtable (June 11, 2016)
Farabee, Darlene, Seminar Leader: "Absence and Omission in Shakespeare". Presented at the Shakesepare Association of America, New Orleans. (March 25, 2016)
Farabee, Darlene, Organizer. Presented at the Shakespeare in South Dakota Symposium, Vermillion SD. (March 18, 2016)
Farabee, Darlene, "Shakespeare Illustrated". Presented at the Humanities Research Forum, Vermillion SD. (March 01, 2016)
Farabee, Darlene, "Drama, Spectatorship, and Everyday Life". Presented at the Colloquium Series on Literature (September 28, 2015)
Farabee, Darlene, "Macbeth and Production". Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Roundtable (June 14, 2015)
Farabee, Darlene, "Tragicomedy in the Wake of Shakespeare". Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver. (April 02, 2015)
Farabee, Darlene, "Staged Space and Perceived Deaths in Early Modern Drama". Presented at the Mary Baldwin College, Staunton VA. (March 27, 2015)
Farabee, Darlene, "John Milton and the Print Radicalism of the British Civil War". Presented at the Colloquium Series on Literature (September 29, 2014)
Farabee, Darlene, "Work or Play? Shakespeare's Texts and What We Do With Them". Presented at the Colloquium Series on Literature (September 22, 2014)
Farabee, Darlene, "Shrews and Shakespeare". Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Roundtable (June 14, 2014)
Farabee, Darlene, Drama and Performance Roundtable. Presented at the Colloquium Roundtable (April 28, 2014)
Farabee, Darlene, Presented at the "Instruments of Song: Music from the Jane Austen Songbook", Vermillion SD. (February 28, 2014)
Farabee, Darlene, "Nineteenth-Century Shakespearean Actors in Thomas Sully's Paintings". Presented at the Humanities Research Forum, Vermillion SD. (December 03, 2013)
Farabee, Darlene, "Shakespeare's Portia and Sully's Imagery". Presented at the Collectors' Corner at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI. (November 08, 2013)
Farabee, Darlene, "Shakespeare's Characters and Thomas Sully's Representations". Presented at the American Arts Society of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. (November 07, 2013)
Farabee, Darlene, "My Kingdom for a Boat" . Presented at the Blackfriars Conference, Staunton VA. (October 25, 2013)
Farabee, Darlene, "Enlarging Tamberlaine's Stage" . Presented at the 7th International Marlowe Conference, Staunton, VA. (June 24, 2013)
Farabee, Darlene, "Spatial Limititations in Richard II" . Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Toronto. (March 28, 2013)
Farabee, Darlene, "Early Modern Travel and The Sea Voyage" . Presented at the Mary Baldwin College, Staunton VA. (November 02, 2012)
Farabee, Darlene, "As You Like Shakespeare" . Presented at the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival, Vermillion SD. (June 09, 2012)
Farabee, Darlene, "The plot and mapping in Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King (1611)" . Presented at the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Aberdeen, SD. (April 13, 2012)
Farabee, Darlene, “Perception and Possibility in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” . Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. (April 06, 2012)
Farabee, Darlene, “Traveling on Prospero’s Island.” . Presented at the Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA. (October 25, 2011)
Farabee, Darlene, “‘A walking shadow’: Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth.”. Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Bellevue, WA. (April 09, 2011)
Farabee, Darlene, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Styles of Production”. Presented at the Lantern Theater Company Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Philadelphia, PA. (March 21, 2011)
Farabee, Darlene, “Shakespeare in Subsequent Eras”. Presented at the Lantern Theater Company Production of 1 Henry 4, Rosenbach Library; Philadelphia, PA. (April 12, 2010)
Farabee, Darlene, "'As strange a maze as e'er men trod': Direction and place in The Tempest". Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. (April 03, 2010)
Farabee, Darlene, “Experiencing Location in Macbeth.”. Presented at the Blackfriars Conference, Staunton VA. (October 23, 2009)
Farabee, Darlene, "The place of the audience in Hamlet" . Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Washington, DC. (April 09, 2009)
Farabee, Darlene, "The Narcissism of Empire: Othello's Venice, Elizabeth's England, Our America". Presented at the Lantern Theater Production of Othello, Philadelphia, PA. (April 14, 2008)
Farabee, Darlene, "Coexistent Values in a Production of The Merchant of Venice" . Presented at the Temple University Panel in conjunction with production of The Merchant of Venice, Philadelphia, PA. (March 28, 2008)
Farabee, Darlene, "Staging the Experience of Space". Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Dallas, TX. (March 15, 2008)
Farabee, Darlene, "Staged Space in The Travels of the Three English Brothers" . Presented at the Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA. (October 27, 2007)
Farabee, Darlene, Prophetic histories in Thomas Heywood's King Edward the Fourth and The Chronographical History of the Kings of England". Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. (April 07, 2007)
Farabee, Darlene, " 'Within his bending sickle's compass': the Compass and Early Modern Travel". Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (April 13, 2006)
Farabee, Darlene, "Invocations, Evocations, and Naming-as-Metaphor in Early Modern Drama" . Presented at the New College Medieval Renaissance Conference, Sarasota, FL. (March 10, 2006)
Farabee, Darlene, "'To discourse/ What should have been in action': Travel in Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West". Presented at the Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA. (October 30, 2005)
Farabee, Darlene, "'How well these authors can travail': Early Modern Travel Manuals". Presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval Renaissance Conference, Jackson Hole, WY. (June 03, 2005)

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