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Susanne Greenhalgh (Director)
Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Roehampton
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email: s.greenhalgh@roehampton.ac.uk
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Members Research interests: ritual, ceremony, and the performance of war in
renaissance culture; Shakespeare (including Shakespeare and childhood);
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women Renaissance playwrights; media and theatre productions and
Conferences adaptations of English medieval and Renaissance plays.
Events Publications include: articles on the adaptation of the medieval Mysteries for
Masters and research degrees theatre and television; television versions of Macbeth since the 1980s;
multiculturalism and television Shakespeare.
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Recent work includes: the section on 'British Television' in Shak espeares
The Queen's House Conference After Shak espeare: The Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and
2010 Popular Culture (Greenwood 2006); an essay on radio Shakespeare for The
Cambridge Companion to Shak espeare and Popular Culture; co-editing of a
Special Issue of Shak espeare (December 2006) commemorating the 200th
anniversary of publication of the Lambs’ Tales from Shak espear, and
Shak espeare and Childhood (Cambridge University Press 2007). She is
currently researching At Home with Shak espeare, on the experience and
reception of Shakespeare in the domestic setting.

Professor Trevor Dean

Professor of History, Roehampton University
email: T.Dean@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Gender, crime and violence in Renaissance Italy.

Publications include: Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy , ed.
Trevor Dean and KJP Lowe (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Clean Hands
and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy (with
DS Chambers) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997); Marriage in
Italy: 1300-1650, ed. Trevor Dean and KJP Lowe (Cambridge University Press,
1998); The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages , ed. and trans. Trevor
Dean (Manchester University Press, 2000).
Professor Dean is currently is researching the criminal world of Renaissance
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Italy, including insult, theft and female violence.

Professor Peter Edwards

Professor of Local and Early Modern British History, Roehampton University
email: P.Edwards@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Early modern warfare; rural society in Tudor and Stuart
England; and the cultural, social and economic role of the horse in the
Renaissance.
Publications include: Dealing in Death: The Arms Trade and the British Civil
Wars, 1638-52 (Far Thrupp: Sutton Publishing, 2000); 'Logistics and Supply',
in J Kenyon and J Ohlmeyer, eds. The Civil Wars: A Military History of
England, Scotland and Ireland 1638-1660 (Oxford University Press, 1995);
The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge University Press,
1988); 'Une forme d' étalage ostentatoire: la mode pour les carosses parmi
l'aristocratie d'Angleterre aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles', in D Reytier, ed. Voiture,
chevaux et attelages en Europe (Paris: Assoc. pour l'Académie d'Art
Equestre de Versailles, 1998); 'Farm and Family: the Administration of the
Estate of William Poore, an Elizabethan Yeoman-Farmer', Southern History ,
16 (1994).
Professor Edwards is currently working on books on the arms trade in the
Thirty Years' War and on horses and culture in Early Modern England.

Professor Robin Headlam Wells

Professor of English Literature, Roehampton University
email: R.Headlam_Wells@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Shakespeare, Elizabethan Poetry, Critical Theory.

Publications include: Human Nature: Fact and Fiction , ed with J McFadden
(Continuum, 2006); Shak espeare's Humanism (Cambridge University Press,
2005); Shak espeare on Masculinity (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Neo-
Historicism: Studies in English Renaissance Literature, History and Politics,
ed. Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess and Rowland Wymer (DS Brewer,
2000); Elizabethan Mythologies (Cambridge University Press, 1994);
Shak espeare, Politics and the State (Macmillan, 1986); Spenser's 'Faerie
Queene' and the Cult of Elizabeth (Croom Helm, 1983).

Dr Jane Kingsley-Smith
Lecturer in English Literature, Roehampton University
email: j.kingsley-smith@rus.roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Shakespeare and Renaissance literature.

Publications include: Shak espeare's Drama of Exile (Palgrave, 2003); the
Introduction to the new Penguin edition of Henry VI Part One (2005); an
edition of Robert Daborne's The Poor Man's Comfort (Globe Quartos, 2005);
and articles on Sidney's Arcadia and Shak espeare in Love.
Dr Kingsley-Smith is currently working on a monograph to be entitled
Lovestruck : Cupid in England 1557-1634 .
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Lovestruck : Cupid in England 1557-1634 .

Dr Aislinn Loconte
Lecturer in Art History, Roehampton University
email: a.loconte@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests include: Early Modern Italian art, Neapolitan art and
urbanism, women and visual culture in Early Modern Europe, Renaissance
court culture, the writings of Giorgio Vasari, and art historiographies
Publications include: articles on royal women’s patronage of art and
architecture in Angevin Naples.
Dr Loconte is currently preparing a monograph entitled Patronage, Art and
Power: Royal Women in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Kingdom of
Naples as well as contributing to the catalogue for an forthcoming exhibition
on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art in the Royal Collection.

Dr Clare McManus
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Roehampton University
email: c.mcmanus@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests include: the interdisciplinary reading of early modern

theatre; early modern women’s performance; gender; the cultures of the
Renaissance court; editing Renaissance dramatic texts.
Publications include: (as author) Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of
Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (1590-1619) (Manchester
University Press, 2002); (as editor) Women and Culture at the Courts of the
Stuart Queens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray,
Mark Thornton Burnett and Clare McManus (eds), Reconceiving the
Renaissance: A Critical Reader (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Dr McManus is currently editing John Fletcher’s Island Princess for the Arden
Early Modern Drama series.

Dr Neil Taylor
Director of Research, Roehampton University
email: N.Taylor@roehampton.ac.uk

Current research concentrates on Shakespeare, primarily Hamlet, which he

has edited with Ann Thompson (Arden 2006) and Shakespeare on film and
television. He has published William Shak espeare: Hamlet (with Ann
Thompson; Northcote House, 1996) and edited Henry IV Part Two (Ginn,
1972), Thomas Middleton: Five Plays (with Bryan Loughrey; Penguin, 1988),
and Shak espeare's Early Tragedies (with Bryan Loughrey; Macmillan, 1990).
His articles and book chapters on Shakespeare and Middleton have been
published in journals such as Shak espeare Quarterly, Shak espeare Survey,
TEXT , and in books such as Shak espeare and the Moving Image (ed.
Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells, CUP, 1994) and The Cambridge
Companion to Shak espeare on Film (ed. Russell Jackson, Cambridge
University Press, 2000).

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 Dr Andrew Wareham
Director, British Academy Hearth Tax Project, Roehampton University
email: A.Wareham@roehampton.ac.uk

Andrew Wareham’s research investigates pre-modern English and Chinese

history within a comparative framework. General studies on the social order
have been complemented by comparative articles, which range from analyses
of the spiritual initiatives of Benedictine and Buddhist monks to the adoption
of divergent water management strategies in East and West. Andrew is
currently working on the context for the emergence of the modern fiscal state,
and on questions of wealth and poverty in London and its suburbs on the eve
of the Great Fire (1666), as reflected in the hearth tax returns.

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