Dr Robert Stagg shortlisted for Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize
The Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize recognises the best books published in Renaissance studies in the last two years
Shakespeare Institute academic Dr Robert Stagg has been shortlisted for the Society for Renaissance Studies' prestigious Book Prize, which recognises the best books published in the field of Renaissance studies in the last couple of years.
His first book Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History was published by Oxford University Press in October 2022, and is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter, a staple verse form of English literature). Dr Stagg's book ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early sixteenth century through the drama and poetry of Shakespeare's contemporaries to the editing of blank verse in the eighteenth century and beyond. The book was previously shortlisted for the University English Book Prize, which celebrates "outstanding first monographs" of literary criticism, about any author/s or time period/s, by a UK-based academic.
Dr. Stagg joined the Shakespeare Institute as a Leverhulme Early-Career Research Fellow in 2020.