Shakespeare Institute Doctoral researcher profiles

PhD title: Anthony Munday: A Modern Edition of Selected Early Work
Supervisor: Professor John Jowett and Professor Tiffany Stern
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Effects of Illumination in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
Supervisors: Professor Tiffany Stern and Dr Simon Smith
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: #DiagnosingShakespeare
Supervisor: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Dr Chris Laoutaris
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Towards Dunsinane: Examining Macbeth’s Witchcraft in Intercultural Adaptation
Supervisors: Dr Chris Laoutaris and Professor Tiffany Stern
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Can modern experience and experimentation clarify offstage Renaissance playhouse processes?
Supervisors: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Dr Chris Laoutaris
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: ‘The Famous Scenic Poet’: Shakespeare and the Art of English Verse, 1587–97
Supervisor: Dr Erin Sullivan and Dr Robert Stagg
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: The commercial infrastructure of the London theatre profession in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Supervisor: Dr Martin Wiggins and Dr Tara Hamling
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: “This low built house will bring us to our ends”: Plague Quarantine and Prophylactic Boundaries in Early Modern Drama and Culture, 1593-1636.
Supervisor: Dr Simon Smith and Dr Erin Sullivan
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Procuring Immortality: Eschatological Reform and the Pursuit of Worldly Fame in English Renaissance Literature
Supervisors: Professor Tom Lockwood and Professor Gillian Wright
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Disguising the King’s Men, 1594-1630: Reading Disguise as a Response to the Rolling Process of Change Within Heminges’ Company. 
Supervisor: Dr Martin Wiggins and Dr Simon Smith
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: ‘The raven doth not hatch a lark’: The alien and maternal bodies of William Shakespeare’s non-English mothers'
Supervisors: Dr Chris Laoutaris and Dr Simon Smith
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: The benefits of the Shared Reading of Shakespeare in a mental health setting.
Supervisor: Dr Chris Laoutaris, Professor Jeannette Littlemore, and Professor Matthew Broome
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: A bibliographic analysis of the titles printed by printer/publisher John Danter between 1591 and 1599
Supervisors: Professor Tiffany Stern and Dr Simon Smith
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: The composition, adaptation and afterlife of music composed by Robert Johnson and John Wilson for the Jacobean stage
Supervisor: Dr Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute), Dr Mary O'Neill (Centre for Early Music Performance and Research)
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: ‘You have beguiled me with a counterfeit’: The Hallmark of Truth and the Exposure of Artifice in Shakespeare’s Work
Supervisor: Dr Chris Laoutaris  and Dr Ann-Marie Carey (Birmingham City University)
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Manchester: Shakespeare’s Northern Powerhouse 1753 - 1901
Supervisor: Professor Michael Dobson
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Directorless Shakespeare
Supervisors: Professor Michael Dobson
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Staging Shakespeare through translation and adaptation in Bangladesh
Supervisor: Professor Michael Dobson and Dr. Manu Sehgal
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: The Trauma-Informed Teaching of Shakespeare
Supervisor: Abigail Rokison-Woodall (Shakespeare Institute) and Neil Hall (School of Education)

PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: Cutting Shakespeare: Promptbook Practice at the RSC
Supervisor: Dr Abigail-Rokison-Woodall (Shakespeare Institute) and Jacqui O’Hanlon  (Royal Shakespeare Company)
PhD Shakespeare Studies

PhD title: 

“Cues for Passion”: Analyzing and Embodying Emotion through Acting Techniques in Shakespearean Performance 

Supervisor: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Dr Erin Sullivan
PhD Shakespeare Studies