Associate ProfessorHuw Griffiths

Project Opportunities

Title: English literature and culture

Summary of opportunity:

My research interests lie in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and culture, with a focus on Shakespearean drama. Specific interests include: constructions of the early modern nation; sovereignty; Restoration and eighteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists; contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays. Other interests include twentieth-century and contemporary British poetry, and contemporary gay fiction.

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Sameness and Difference in Shakespeare and Fletcher: Homophobia, Insult and Adaptation:

• expands an understanding of the relationship between early modern theatrical writing and the emergence of same-sex relationships, masculinity and sexuality;
• brings the two fields of early modern drama and Restoration/eighteenth-century drama together in ways that illuminate both, that answer to the continuing traditions of adaptation, collaboration and re-writing that occur across the periods, and that reveal ongoing developments in the histories of gender and sexuality;
• places some key canonical texts (e.g. Henry V, Twelfth Night, Two Noble Kinsmen, Philaster; some Cervantes) in relation to less well-known counterparts (e.g. The Chances, The Custom of the Country, The Little French Lawyer; Cibber’s Love Makes a Man).