Matthew Steggle, ed.,Volpone: A Critical Guide (London: Continuum, 2011). "The most wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of Jonson's comedy ever assembled... Future study of Volpone starts here" (Richard Dutton, Ohio State University).
Matthew Steggle, Laughing
and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). "A fascinating and welcome study... an immensely valuable resource for future scholarship" (Early Theatre); "offers a wealth of evidence about early modern performance practices that has never been amassed before" (Review of English Studies); "this thoughtful, useful book" (Times Literary Supplement).
Lisa Hopkins and Matthew Steggle, Renaissance
Literature and Culture (London: Continuum, 2006). "the background of English Renaissance literature in a nutshell... squeeze[s] a tremendous amount of readable information into a mere 144 pages" (Sixteenth Century Journal).
Matthew Steggle, Richard
Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2004). "Admirable and clear-headed" (Times
Literary Supplement); "most impressive" (Ben Jonson Journal);
"advances... discussion by several giant leaps" (Comparative
Drama);"a thoroughly
good book" (Notes and Queries).
Matthew Steggle, Wars
of the Theatres: The Poetics of Personation in the Age of Jonson (Victoria,
B.C.: English Literary Studies, 1998). "Steggle is one of the most promising
and productive of the newest generation of Jonsonians" (Ben Jonson
Journal).
2. Editions
Richard Brome, The English Moor, ed. Matthew Steggle, in Richard A. Cave, gen. ed., Richard Brome Online (2010). Online at http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/brome/. ISBN 978-0-9557876-1-4.
Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ed. Eric Rasmussen and Matthew Steggle, in Martin Butler, David Bevington, and Ian
Donaldson, gen. eds., The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011).
3. Articles; chapters; notes
"A lost Jacobean tragedy: Henry the Una (c.1619)", Early Theatre 13 (2010): 65-81. Winner of the Early Theatre Prize for Best Theatre History Essay 2009-10. Online at http://www.lostplays.org/images/6/6b/ET_Steggle.pdf.
"Jonson in the Elizabethan Era" in Julie Sanders, ed., Ben Jonson in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010), 15-22.
"Case studies in reading literary texts" in Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling, eds., The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook (London: Continuum, 2010), 85-107.
"Doctor Faustus and the devils of Empedocles", Notes and Queries 56 (2009): 544-7.
Lisa Hopkins, Raymond G. Siemens, and Matthew Steggle, "EMLS: A Case Study in the Development of an Ejournal", in William R. Bowen and Raymond G. Siemens, eds., New Technologies and Renaissance Studies (Tempe, Arizona: Iter Inc., 2008), 144-160.
"'Knowledge will be multiplied':
Digital literary studies and early modern literature", in Raymond G.
Siemens and Susan Schreibman, eds., A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 82-105. Online at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/.
"Two Notes on Robert Tofte's Alba
(1598)", Notes
and Queries54 (2007): 262-4.
"Cynthia waning: Cynthia's Revels
imagines the death of the Queen", in Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins,
eds., Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I (Manchester:
Manchester UP, 2007), 154-66.
"Aristophanes in Early Modern England"
in Edith Hall and Amanda Wrigley, eds., Aristophanes in Performance 421
BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs (Oxford: Legenda, 2007), 52-65.
"Ben Jonson" in Andrew Hiscock and Lisa
Hopkins, eds., Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 106-117.
"John Marston's Entertainment at Ashby
and the 1606 Fleet Conduit Eclogue", Medieval and Renaissance Drama
in England 19 (2006): 249-255.
"Demoniceacleare in The Miseries
of Inforst Mariage", Notes and Queries 53 (2006): 514-15.
"Players at the Maidenhead Inn, Islington,
1618", Notes and Queries 53 (2006): 519-21.
"Greenes Baboone: Thomas Greene, ape
impersonator?", Theatre Notebook 60 (2006): 72-5.
"Placing Caroline politics
on the professional comic stage" in Julie Sanders and Ian Atherton, eds,
The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline
Era (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 154-70.
"The other side of the war: Marston and Dekker"
in Harold Bloom ed., Bloom's Period Studies: Elizabethan Dramatists
(Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004), 261-84 (rpt. of Chapter Two of Wars
of the Theatres).
"What-so-ere your fantasy dreams
on: What You Will and varieties of fantasy", The
Drama of John Marstoned. T.F. Wharton (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000),
45-59.
"Spenser's Ludgate: A Topical
Allusion in The Faerie Queene II.x", Notes
and Queries 245 (2000): 34-7.
"Horace the Second, or, Ben
Jonson, Thomas Dekker, and the Battle for Augustan Rome" in The Author
as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature ed.
Paul Franssen and Ton Hoenselaars (Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University
Press, 1999), 118-30.
"'Gums of glutinous heat'
and Euripides' Medea", Notes
and Queries 244 (1999): 328-30.
"'Acute Canaidus' in What You
Will 567", Notes and Queries
244 (1999): 248-50.
"Valeat Res Ludicra: An
imitation of Horace in Jonson's 'Ode To Himself'", The
Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998): 101-13.
"Jonson's Every Man Out and
Commentators on Terence", Notes
and Queries 242 (1997): 525-6.
"Fulke Greville" in
David Scott Kastan, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Contributions to Chapters 5-10 of The Year's Work in English Studies, 1999-2006, including sections on "Jonson", "Other Renaissance Drama", "Marvell", and "Restoration poetry".
42 new or revised articles for
the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press,
2004), <http://www.oxforddnb.com>,
including the following:
Richard Argall (fl.
1621), supposed poet
Robert Aylett (1583-1655),
lawyer and poet
William Barclay (c.1570-c.1630),
medical writer and neo-Latin poet
Ralph Bathurst (1620-1704),
Dean of Wells and President of Trinity College, Oxford
Daubridgcourt Belchier (1581-?1621),
playwright
Catharine Bentley (c.1591-1659),
abbess and translator
Charles Chester (?1554-1604),
informer and wit
Roger Cotton (c.1557-1602),
draper and poet
Thomas Edwards (fl.1595),
Inns of Court student and poet
Thomas Evans (d.1633),
cleric and poet
Elizabeth Evelinge (c.1597-1668),
abbess and translator
Henry Fitzgeffrey (fl.1612-1621),
lawyer, debtor, and poet
Thomas Fortescue (d.1602),
translator and alleged sorceror
Dunstan Gale (fl.1596),
poet "both dull and bad"
John Glanvill (?1664-1735),
poet and translator
John Grange (b.?1557),
Inns of Court student and poet
H. A. (fl.1613), poet
Henry Hutton (d.1671),
satirist and cleric
George Jeffreys (1678-1755),
poet and translator
William Lisle (?1569-1637),
translator and Anglo-Saxon scholar
Gervase Markham (1557-1636/7),
Sheriff of Nottingham
Gervase Markham (?1568-1636/7),
playwright and poet
Henry Martyn (1665-1721),
essayist
Joseph Perkins (b.1657),
poet and preacher
Ludovico Petrucci (b.c.1575),
soldier of fortune and poet
Thomas Proctor (fl.1578-1584),
stationer, anthologist, and poet
John Rous (1584-1644), clergyman
and diarist
John Smith (1662-1717), poet
and dramatist
Thomas Storer (c.1571-1604),
poet
Nicholas Udall (1504-1556),
scholar, translator, and playwright
James Yates (fl.1582),
servingman and poet
Contributions to the online edition of the Oxford
DNB, including
Salomon Pavy (bap. 1588, d.
1602), actor
Contributions to Helen Ostovich
and Elizabeth Sauer, eds., Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of
Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700 (London: Routledge, 2004).
"Richard Brinsley Sheridan" in Jonathan
Dewald, ed., Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004).
Contributions to David Rundle,
ed., The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Oxford: Helicon,
1999), including the article "William Shakespeare" (364-67).
5. Forthcoming
McInnis, David, and Matthew Steggle. ‘Folger MS X.d.390 (1-2) and Folger MS X.d.391’. Notes and Queries (forthcoming, 2011).
"The urbane John Marston", in A. D. Hoenselaars, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (forthcoming).
"Richard Brome" for Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart, gen eds., Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature 3 vols (Blackwell, forthcoming).
"A lost Turk Play: Actors Mufti Nassuf &c", Ben Jonson Journal (forthcoming, 2012).
"Notes towards an analysis of early modern applause" in Tanya Pollard and Katherine Craik, eds.,
Shakespearean Sensations (Cambridge UP, forthcoming).
"The Comedy of Errors" in William Baker and Ken Womack, eds., The Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare (forthcoming).
Member of the Academic Advisory Board to the JISC-funded projects Electronic Ephemera: Digitized selections from the John Johnson Collection < http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/eejjc/>; and the Shakespeare Quartos Archive, http://quartos.org/.
Editorial Board member:
The Lost Plays Database, gen. eds. Roslyn L. Knutson and David McInnis <http://www.lostplays.org>.