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, examining the costs of playhouse building and operation, income and profitability through the lives and careers of Philip Henslowe and John Heminges.
Supervisor: Professor Tiffany Stern 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: How Has the RSC's The Other Place Influenced Emerging Director's From 1974 - 2009?
Supervisor: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Professor Graham Saunders
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: From Shakespeare to the Windrush
Supervisor: Dr Chris Laoutaris and Professor Michael Dobson
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 Will Sharpe 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: Early modern apprentices - their representations in drama and their relationship to wider apprentice culture (provisional)
Supervisor: Dr Simon Smith and Dr Chris Laoutaris 
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