All Outputs (13)

Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir (2022)
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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.

Review of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (directed by Laurie Sansom for the Northern Broadsides theatre company) at the New Vic Theatre, Staffordshire, 10 February 2022. (2022)
Journal Article

“Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy (2020)
Journal Article

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.

23. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) (2019)
Book Chapter

Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature (2019)
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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.

Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge (2018)
Book Chapter

Emotion, cognition and spectator response to the plays of Shakespeare (2018)
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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.

Reflections on Issues of Student Diversity (2018)
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'The Poets' War Revisited' (2016)
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This essay seeks to explore the role played by John Marston in the so-called War of the Poets – the literary quarrel between a small group of playwrights, including Marston, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, and perhaps William Shakespeare, in the late sixt... Read More about 'The Poets' War Revisited'.

Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama: Satire and the Audience (2016)
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Hamlet and the Limits of Narrative (2015)
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Homoerotic Desire and Renaissance Lyric Verse (2013)
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Rivalry and romance in late Shakespeare (2011)
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