CMRC research fellows

Jane Cowling

Jane Cowling is working on the Hampshire volume in the Records of Early
English Drama series, as co-editor with Peter Greenfield. Her recent publications include:

  • Performance at Winchester College, 1396-1642, in Research Opportunities in
    Medieval and Renaissance Drama, XLVI, 2007
  • Co-author with Peter Greenfield: Monks, Minstrels and Players: Drama in
    Hampshire before 1642.     Hampshire Paper 29, 2008.

Lynn Forest-Hill

Lynn is currently running a series of free introductory lectures on early English literature and language under the title 'English in the Afternoon' hosted by the Central Library, Southampton. She is also facilitator for the Shakespeare, Poetry, and Tolkien Reading Groups at the Central Library Southampton. She is currently researching traditional imagery in The Tempest. Her publications include:
 
  • 'Boromir, Byrhtnoth, and Bayard: Finding a Language of Grief in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings' , Tolkien Studies, 5 (2008)73-97
  • (ed.) The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works  (Cambridge: Scholars Press, 2008)  
  • 'Maidens and Matrons: The Theatricality of Gender in the Tudor Interludes', in Peter Happe and Wim Husken, eds, Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), 43-69.
  • 'Giants and Enemies of God: The Relationship between Caliban and Prospero from the Perspective of Insular Literary Tradition', in Shakespeare Survey 59, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 239-53
  • 'Prospero's Art: Magic or Mycotoxicology?' Times Literary Supplement, April 23, 2004, 12-13
  • 'Mankind and the Fifteenth-Century Preaching Controversy', Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 15 (2002), 17-42
  • Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)
  • 'Sins of the Mouth: Signs of Subversion in Medieval English Cycle Plays', in Dermot Cavanagh and Tim Kirk, eds, Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), 11-25
  •  'Myth and Politics in George Oppen's poem "The Occurrences"' in Ways of Creative Mythology II (Tolkien Society, 1997), 35-42
  • 'Lucian's Satire of Philosophers in Heywood's Play of the Weather', Medieval English Theatre 18 (1996), 142-60

Nancy Hadden 

Nancy performs world-wide as a specialist on wooden flutes from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods and is Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at Southampton, where she is engaged in performance and recording projects focussing on the Renaissance flute consort. She has recently completed her PhD at University of Leeds, is an editor of early flute music and has contributed articles on historical flute playing for Cambridge University Press, Ashgate, STIMU and many scholarly journals.

Dr Peter Happé 

Peter Happé is editing James Shirley, The Opportunity for the forthcoming collected works (OUP), and George Wapull, The Tide Tarrieth No Man for the Malone Society. He is also preparing a study of Jonson’s Caroline Plays, and is co-editing a collection of essays on the Mystères for the Ludus series (Rodopi), of which he is a general editor. Recent publications include:

  • ‘Printers of Interludes’, in A Companion to Tudor Literature, ed. Kent Cartwright (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 192-210
  • (ed.), The Trial of Treasure, Malone Society Reprint (Manchester: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010) 
  • ‘Wealth in the Interludes’, Cahiers Elisabéthains, 77 (2010), 1-8
  • ‘The Poetics of Ben Jonson’s The Underwood’, Ben Jonson Journal, 17 (2010), 163-82
  • ‘John Bale and Controversy: Readers and Audiences’, in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, ed. Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 137-53
  • ‘Henry VIII in the Interludes’, in Henry VIII and his Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art, ed. Mark Rankin, Christopher Highly and John N. King (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 15-33
  • ‘John Heywood and Humanism: The Foure PP and The Spider and the Fly’, in Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England ed.Zsolt Almási and Mike Pincombe (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), 118-35
  • ‘Deceptions: The Vice of the Interludes and Iago’, Theta 8 (2009), 105-24  http://umr6576.cesr.univ-tours.fr/publications/theta8/
  • Update of 'A Guide to the Criticism of Medieval Drama', for Cambridge Companion to Medieval Drama, 2nd edition, ed. Richard Beadle and Alan J.Fletcher, Cambridge UP, (2008), 326-60
  • ‘Jonson’s Management of Stage Space in His Later Plays.’ Ben Jonson Journal, 15 (2008), 1-18
  • ‘“I am a chylde, as you may se, Goten in game and in grete synne”: Youth Perceived by Age in English Sixteenth-Century Interludes’, in Thomas Baier (ed.), Generationenkonflikte auf der Bühne: Perspektiven im antiken und mittelalterlichen Drama (Tübingen:Narr, 2007) 237-52.
  • ‘Metatheatre in the English Mystery Cycles: Expositor, Contemplatio, Prolocutor and Others’, Theta 7 (2007), 89-108
  • ‘Staging God in Last Judgement Plays in England, France and Italy’, in J.P. Bordier and A. Lascombes (eds.) Dieu et les dieux dans le théâtre de la Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 151-70
  • The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007)
  • ‘Printing the Third Volume of Jonson’s Works’, Ben Jonson Journal 14 (2007), 20-42
  • ‘Expositor Figures in some Cycle Plays in French and German’, in Philip Butterworth (ed.), The Narrator, the Expositor and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre (Brepols: Turnhout 2007), 45-68
  • Ed. with Wim Hüsken, Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007)
  • ‘Skelton’s Magnyfycence: Theatre, Poetry, Influence’, in Interludes and Early
    Modern Society
  • ‘“Rejoice ye in us with joy most joyfully”: John Heywood’s Plays and the Court’ Cahiers Elisabéthains 72 (2007), 1-8
  • ‘The Restless Mind that would never raging leave’: Jasper Heywood’s Thyestes,’ METh 27 (2005), 16-33

Erin Headley

Erin is Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts. She is an internationally acclaimed viola da gamba player and the world's leading exponent of that rare and hauntingly beautiful bowed instrument, the lirone.

Sally-Beth MacLean

Sally-Beth is a Visiting Fellow of the CMRC. She is the executive editor and associate director of the Records of Early English Drama. John McGavin works closely with her on the AHRC-supported project 'Records of Early English Drama, Middlesex /Westminster: Eight Theatres north of the Thames'.

Professor Colin Morris

Colin is an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and was Professor of Medieval History at Southampton from 1969 until his retirement in 1992. He has been President of the Ecclesiastical History Society, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent book was 'The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West' (O.U.P., 2005). Since then, he has been exploring aspects of this subject, such as the use of relics, images, stigmata and tattoos; and the development of pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages. Earlier this year he spoke at the symposium, 'There and Back Again' at Balliol, Oxford, on 'Copies of the Sepulchre'.

Clare Wikeley

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