Diana Solomon

Publications

Books

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Edited by Diana Solomon and David Weston
Forthcoming 2024.

Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation
Edited by the Multigraph Collective
Chicago, 2018.

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice
Edited by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Diana Solomon, Paul St. Pierre, and Sean Zwagerman. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print. Delaware, 2013.  

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Out of the Closet and Into the Clasroom: Teaching Anne Finch’s Plays.” Aphra Behn Online, 14: 1 (Summer 2024): 1-13.

• “Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theatre: Disrupting the Path of the Knight-Errant.” Eighteenth-Century Life, 46:3 (September 2022): 123-143.

• “Why have so few women won the Leacock prize for comedy?” (co-authored with Sean Zwagerman). The Conversation, 4 August 2022.

• “Little House on the Tundra: Female winners of the Leacock medal for Canadian literary comedy” (co-authored with Sean Zwagerman).  English Studies in Canada, 47.1 (March 2021): 91-114.

• “Anecdotes and Restoration Actresses: The Cases of Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. 31:2 (Winter 2016): 19-36.

• “The Jolt of Jacobean Tragicomedy: Double Falsehood on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage.” Revisiting Shakespeare's "Lost" Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Deborah C. Payne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 57-73. (Winner of the 2018 Annibel Jenkins Prize in Performance and Theatre Studies)

• “Laugh, or Forever Hold your Peace: Comic crowd control in Margaret Cavendish’s dramatic prologues and epilogues.” Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice. Eds. Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Diana Solomon, Paul St Pierre, Sean Zwagerman. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013. 55-64.

• “George Lillo’s The London Merchant and the Laughing Audience.” The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and its Audiences. Ed. Judith Batalion. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2012. 124-39.

• “Anne Finch, Restoration Playwright.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 30:1 (2011): 37-56.

• “From Infamy to Intimacy: Anne Bracegirdle’s Mad Songs.” Restoration 35:1 (2011): 1-20.

• “Tragic Play, Bawdy Epilogue?” Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage. Ed. Judith Slagle and Daniel Ennis. Delaware, 2007. 155-78.

Forthcoming Publications

• Editor, The Provoked Wife, by John Vanbrugh. Forthcoming in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, 2 ed.

• “The Anecdotal Afterlife of Rebecca Marshall” (co-authored with Heather Ladd). Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance series, Vol. 1: Performers. Ed. Colleen Daniher and Marlis Schweitzer. Bloomsbury.

• “Poetry on Stage.” The Oxford History of Poetry in English, ed. Patrick Cheney, Volume 5: Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, ed. Laura L. Knoppers. 108-120.

Current Graduate Student Supervision

PhD students:

• Sarah Cipes, UBC-Okanagan (committee member), Kelowna’s Comedy Communities: Technology, Embodiment and Gender in Perception of Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy Performances

• Nikhil Jayadevan (committee member), Comedy and Satire against Cynical Withdrawal

• Kate Moffatt (secondary field exam), Long eighteenth-century Literature, Textual Media, and Gender