Andrew started following the work of Elizabeth Spiller, Florida State University, Department of English.
Andrew started following the work of Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University, Arts, Law and Social Sciences.
Andrew started following the work of Lynn Howes.
Visiting Academic Lecturer, English Studies
About
My principal research interests lie in Shakespeare and early modern drama. I am also interested in performance cultures, and in the contexts that influence apparent flourishes of theatrical productivity throughout history.
I am currently writing a monograph study of the performance cultures at Cambridge and the inns of court in the early reign of Elizabeth I and the influence of the plays produced and translated at these institutions on the drama of the professional playhouses of the later reign. The book is called Love, Tyranny, and Revenge: Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and the English Senecan tradition and is being written for the Palgrave-Macmillan, Early Modern Literature in History series.
My doctoral thesis entitled Stages of Madness: representations of madness in Shakespeare's Richard II, Hamlet, and Macbeth(2006) was an exploration of the ways that Shakespearean drama represents madness. Looking at the relationship between sin and madness, contemporary medical approaches to madness, and the adoption of classical theatrical models of madness the thesis explored a wide range of lesser-known sources for Shakespeare’s Richard II, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
