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Ungainefull Arte

'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

Richard A. McCabe

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Ancient Rome in English Political Culture, ca. 1570-1660, Huntington Library Quarterly

Edited by Professor Paulina Kewes

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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

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England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

Material Texts in Early Modern England

Material Texts in Early Modern England

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No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family’s Missing Men

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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare

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Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature

Shakespeare's First Folio

Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

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Shakespeare's Syndicate

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Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations

Paulina Kewes (ed.)

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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

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The Complete Works of John Milton

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The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

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The Rhetoric of the Page

Professor Laurie Maguire

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This Is Shakespeare

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Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict

News

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'Courting India' and 'The Wife of Bath' feature in BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year

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Dr Ben Higgins shortlisted for Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2023

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Dr Helen Moore announced as joint winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

Dr Lauren Working has been chosen as a New Generation Thinker

Imaginary city growing out of a smartphone

English DPhil students' app shortlisted for award

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English Faculty members share research via new educational app

the conversation

How to read Shakespeare for pleasure

Major grant awarded to Zooniverse

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New Bodleian exhibition: ‘Melancholy: A New Anatomy’

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New Jesus College event will explore Shakespeare's global perspective

Opening Oxford 1871 project launched

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Prof Lorna Hutson longlisted for Saltire Society Literary Awards

Prof Nandini Das's 'Courting India' shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize 2024

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Professor Emma Smith shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023

Professor Emma Smith to join the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Professor Nandini Das awarded ERC funding for TRACTION project

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Professor Nandini Das features in documentary on Henry VIII

Professor Nandini Das features on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature

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Professor Nandini Das on BBC Radio 3

Professor Nandini Das shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize

Professor Nandini Das wins the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

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Professor Paulina Kewes and her team awarded funding for interdisciplinary pilot project

Professor Paulina Kewes awarded Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust

Professor Ros Ballaster featured on BBC Radio 4

Shelley-Mills Prize Winner 2020

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Taking Issue with Shakespeare: new BBC Radio 4 series with Professor Emma Smith

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This year’s Shelley-Mills Prize awarded to Daniella Sakota

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TIDE project launches an interactive multimedia archive

TIDE welcomes Elif Shafak as visiting writer for 2021

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Writing the Stuart successions

Academics

Dr Joe Ashmore

Stipendiary Lecturer in English

Professor Tamara Atkin

Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Book History; Tutorial Fellow, The Queen’s College

The Queen's College

Professor Sir Jonathan Bate

Senior Research Fellow

Worcester College

Stephen Bernard

Dr Stephen Bernard

Academic Visitor

Professor Colin Burrow

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College

Dr John Creaser

Emeritus Fellow, Mansfield College

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Professor Nandini Das

Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture; Tutorial Fellow, Exeter College

Professor Peter Davidson

Senior Research Fellow, Campion Hall

Dr Bethany Dubow

Stipendiary Lecturer in English

Dr Madeleine Forey

College Tutor and Lecturer, Pembroke College

Dr Hugh Gazzard

Non-Stipendiary Lecturer, St Hugh's College

Dr Sean Geddes

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Dr Beatrice Groves

Dr Beatrice Groves

Research Fellow and Lecturer

Dr Ben Higgins

Career Development Fellow in English Literature

Lady Margaret Hall

Professor Lorna Hutson

Merton Professor of English Literature

Professor Margaret Kean

Associate Professor; Tutorial Fellow, St Hilda's College

Professor Paulina Kewes

Professor of English Literature; Helen Morag Tutorial Fellow, Jesus College

Dr Richard Lawes

College Tutor and Lecturer, Regent's Park College

Dr Amy Lidster

Career Development Fellow and Tutor in English

Corpus Christi College, Wadham College

Dr Tom MacFaul

Lecturer, St Edmund Hall

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Professor Laurie Maguire

Emeritus Professor

Magdalen College

Professor Richard McCabe

Professor of English Language and Literature; Tutorial Fellow

Peter McCullough

Professor Peter McCullough

Professor of English; Tutorial Fellow, Lincoln College

Professor Helen Moore

Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow, Corpus Christi College

Professor Joe Moshenska

Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow, University College

Dr Katie Murphy

Professor Kathryn Murphy

Associate Professor; Fellow and Tutor, Oriel College

Professor David Norbrook

Emeritus Professor

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Professor Simon Palfrey

Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow, Brasenose College

Professor John Pitcher

Emeritus Research Fellow in English Literature

Dr William Poole

Fellow and Tutor, New College

Professor Diane Purkiss

Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow, Keble College

Dr Lynn Robson

Fellow in English, Regent's Park College

Dr Chris Salamone

Stipendiary Lecturer

Mansfield College

Professor Emma Smith

Professor of Shakespeare Studies; Tutorial Fellow, Hertford College

Dr Olivia Smith

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow

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Professor Adam Smyth

Professor; Tutorial Fellow, Balliol College

Dr Tess Somervell

Lecturer in English

Worcester College

Professor Noël Sugimura

Associate Professor, Tutorial Fellow in English

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Dr Jennifer Edwards

Career Development Fellow in English, The Queen's College

Dr Carla Suthren

Stipendiary Lecturer in English

St Catherine's College

Dr David Tolley

College Tutor and Lecturer, Hertford College

Professor Ted Tregear

Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow, Merton College

Professor Bart van Es

Professor of English Literature; Fellow and Senior Tutor, St Catherine's College

Professor Philip West

Associate Professor; Tutorial Fellow, Somerville College

Professor Henry Woudhuysen

Rector of Lincoln College

Students

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Kate Allan

Post-Award Member

Flynn Allott

DPhil Candidate

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Olivia Anderson Campbell

DPhil Candidate

Lincoln College

Christopher Archibald

DPhil Candidate

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Lakshmi Priya Balakrishnan

DPhil Candidate

Queen's College

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Richard Bradshaw

DPhil Candidate

Hertford College

Jane Cooper

DPhil Candidate

All Souls College

Beatrice Cox O'Brien

DPhil Candidate

St Antony's College

Dr Christopher Fell

Post-Award Member

Hertford College

Lucy Fleming

Post-Award Member

Daniel Fried

DPhil Candidate

Herin Iole Han

DPhil Candidate

Magdalen College

Matilda Houston-Brown

DPhil Candidate

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Meghan Kern

DPhil Candidate

Lincoln College

Claire Landis

Post-Award Member of the Faculty

Luke Maxted

DPhil Candidate

Balliol College

Paul Norris

DPhil Candidate

Brasenose College

Richard Phillips

DPhil Candidate

Balliol College

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Jacob Ridley

DPhil Candidate

University College

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Tom Roberts

DPhil Candidate

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Madeleine Saidenberg

DPhil Candidate

Worcester College

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Dan Haywood

Post-Award Member

St John's College

caroline taylor

Caroline Taylor

DPhil Candidate

St Hugh's College

Joseph Turner

DPhil Candidate

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Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull

DPhil Candidate

St Anne's College

Events

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A Plague of Social Subjects: Timon Takes the Cure (Oxford Wells Lecture 4)

Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building, Faculty of English Language and Literature

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Death Tricks: Chastity as Killed Vaccine (Oxford Wells Lecture 1)

Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building

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Kaleidoscope Dreams: Falling in Love, with Quarantine (Oxford Wells Lecture 3)

Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building, Faculty of English Language and Literature

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Prosopopeia, Or, What Have You Done for Me Lately? (Oxford Wells Lecture 2)

Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building

Lectures

Decoding Shakespeare: Friedman v. Arensberg

St Cross Building, Lecture Theatre 2 and online

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Decoding Shakespeare: How to Make Anything Signify Anything

St Cross Building, Lecture Theatre 2 and online

Decoding Shakespeare: Of Anagrammatology

St Cross Building, Lecture Theatre 2 and online

Decoding Shakespeare: The Cryptographic Renaissance

St Cross Building, Lecture Theatre 2 and online

England’s Insular Imaginings – Inaugural Lecture of Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature

Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty

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Melancholy: A New Anatomy

Treasury, Weston Library, Bodleian Library

Margreta de Grazia

Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Timeline

Exam Schools, High Street, Oxford

Margreta de Grazia

Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 3: The Archive and its Discontents

Exam Schools, High Street, Oxford

The great assembly of 1651 painting

Parliamentary Culture in Early Modern Europe Launch Event

The Librarian by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

The Master’s Books: a lecture by Prof Stephen Greenblatt

T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford

TIDEfest – a free online literary festival

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Who's the Dupe? (Script-in-hand performance)

Mordern Hall, St Hugh's College, Oxford