Dr Lucy Munro

Title: Senior Lecturer
Phone: (+44) 01782 734282
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Location: CBB 2.061
Role: Director of Programmes for English and English and American Literatures
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I studied for a BA in English Language and Literature at Manchester University before moving to King’s College London for my MA and PhD. After teaching at King’s and at Reading University, I took up my post at Keele in 2004.

 

My main research interests are in Shakespeare and early modern literature and culture; editing and book history; childhood studies; literature and ageing; and literary style and genre. I am also interested in modern drama and in Shakespeare in performance/on film.

 

My current book project, provisionally titled The English Archaic: Outmoded Style in Early Modern Literature, 1590-1660, is a study of the literary, cultural and political functions in early modern texts of linguistic, poetic or dramatic styles that would have registered as outmoded or old-fashioned to audiences or readers. I am also working on editions of Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton (for Arden Early Modern Drama) and James Shirley’s The Gentleman of Venice (for The Works of James Shirley, gen. ed. Eugene Giddens, Teresa Grant and Barbara Ravelhofer, Oxford University Press). In addition, I am a Co-Investigator on the ‘Ages and Stages’ project, a collaboration between Keele and the New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, which is funded by the joint research councils’ New Dynamics of Aging programme.

 

Selected Publications

  • Munro LC. 2013. ‘“O Read me for I am of Great Antiquity”: Old Books and Elizabethan Popularity’. In The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Smith E and Kesson A (Eds.). Forthcoming: Ashgate.
  • Munro LC. 2013. Forthcoming: ‘The Alchemist: Stage History’. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, electronic edition. Bevington D, Butler M, Donaldson I (Eds.).
  • Munro LC. 2012. The Early Modern Repertory and the Performance of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries Today. In Performing Early Modern Drama Today. Aebischer P and Prince K (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Munro LC. 2011. 'Shakespeare and Drama'. In The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts. Wray R, Burnett MT, Street A (Eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Munro L. 2011. Shakespeare and the Uses of the Past: Critical Approaches and Current Debates. SHAKESPEARE, vol. 7(1), 102-125. link> doi>

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Books

  • Munro L. 2005. Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP. link>

Journal Articles

  • Munro L. 2011. [Review of] Neil Corcoran, Shakespeare and the Modern Poet. Times Literary Supplement, 23.
  • Munro L. 2011. Shakespeare and the Uses of the Past: Critical Approaches and Current Debates. SHAKESPEARE, vol. 7(1), 102-125. link> doi>
  • Munro L. 2010. [Review of] Mark Girouard, Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640. Times Literary Supplement, 10-12.
  • Munro L. 2009. [Review of] Harris, Jonathan Gil.: Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare. Times Literary Supplement, 24. link>
  • Munro L. 2009. [Review of] Lamb, Edel.: Performing childhood in the early modern theatre: the children's playing companies (1599-1613). Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 62(4), 1373-1375. link>
  • Munro L. 2009. Marlowe on the Caroline Stage. Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship, vol. 27(1), 39-50. link>
  • Munro L. 2008. [Review of] Howard, Tony.: Women as Hamlet: performance and interpretation in theatre, film and fiction. Times Literary Supplement, 7-8. link>
  • Munro L. 2008. [Review of] Daileader, Celia R.; Taylor, Gary (eds).: The tamer tamed; or, The woman's prize. Early Theatre, vol. 11(1), 107-111. link>
  • Munro L. 2007. [Review of] Scragg, Leah (ed.).: The woman in the moon. Times Literary Supplement, 22-23. link>
  • Munro L. 2007. Shakespeare 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Times Literary Supplement, 20.
  • Munro L. 2007. Oh, ladies be good. Times Literary Supplement, 8-9. link>
  • Munro L. 2007. [Review of] Hirsh, James.: Shakespeare and the history of soliloquies. Modern Language Review, vol. 102(1), 210-211. link>
  • Munro L. 2007. [Review of] Howard, Jean E.: Theater of a city: the places of London comedy, 1598-1642. Review of English Studies, vol. 58, 565-567. link>
  • Munro L. 2006. [Review of] Robinson, Alan.: Imagining London, 1770-1900. Times Literary Supplement, 22. link>
  • Munro L. 2006. Governing the pen to the capacity of the stage: reading the Red Bull and Clerkenwell. Early Theatre, vol. 9(2), 99-113. link>
  • Munro L. 2006. Richarn Brome and 'The Book of Bulls': Situating 'The New Academy, or The New Exchange'. The Ben Jonson Journal, vol. 13.
  • Munro L. 2006. Shakespeare on Screen. The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 85.
  • Munro L. 2005. [Review of] Barbour, Richmond.: Before Orientalism: London's theatre of the East 1576-1626; Vitkus, Daniel.: Turning Turk: English theater and the multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630. Times Literary Supplement, 11. link>
  • MUNRO. L. 2005. [Review of] Heidi Hutner Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama. New Theatre Quarterly, vol. 21(81), 100. link>
  • Munro L. 2005. Shakespeare on Screen. The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 84, 361-372.
  • Munro L. 2005. The Humour of Children: Performance, Gender, and the Early Modern Children's Companies. Literature Compass, vol. 2(1), [no-pagination]. link>
  • Munro L. 2004. [Review of] Loewenstein, Joseph.: Ben Jonson and possessive authorship. Times Literary Supplement, 26. link>
  • Munro L. 2004. [Review of] McManus, Clare.: Women on the Renaissance stage: Anna of Denmark and female masquing in the Stuart court (1590-1619). New Theatre Quarterly, vol. 20(2), 195. link>
  • Lucy M. 2004. A neglected allusion to Pericles and Hengist King of Kent in Performance. Notes and Queries, vol. 51(3), 307-310.
  • Lucy M. 2004. Read not Dead : A Review Article. Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 22(1), 23-40.
  • Lucy M. 2004. Shakespeare on Screen. The Year's Work in English Studies.
  • Munro L. 2003. [Review of] Harris, Jonathan Gil; Korda, Natasha (eds).: Staged properties in early modern English drama. Times Literary Supplement, 28. link>
  • Munro L. 2003. [Review of] Bruster, Douglas.: Shakespeare and the question of culture: early modern literature and the cultural turn. Times Literary Supplement, 35. link>
  • Munro L. 2003. [Review of] Brown, Pamela Allen.: Better a shrew than a sheep: women, drama, and the culture of jest in early modern England. Times Literary Supplement, 32. link>
  • Munro L. 2003. [Review of] Jowitt, Claire.: Voyage drama and gender politics, 1589-1642: real and imagined worlds. Times Literary Supplement, 31. link>
  • Munro L. 2003. Early modern drama and the repertory approach. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, vol. 42, 1-33. link>
  • Munro L. 2003. Shakespeare on Screen. The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 82, 330-336.
  • Munro L. 2002. [Review of] Greenblatt, Stephen.: Hamlet in Purgatory; Holderness, Graham.: Cultural Shakespeare: essays in the Shakespeare myth. Shakespeare Yearbook, vol. 13, 522-527. link>
  • Munro LC. Forthcoming: ‘Nemp your sexes!’: Anachronistic Aesthetics in Hengist, King of Kent and the Jacobean ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Play. Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Postclassical Literature.
  • Munro LC. Forthcoming: ‘Speaking History: Linguistic Memory in the Late-Elizabethan History Play’.

Chapters

  • Munro LC. 2013. ‘“O Read me for I am of Great Antiquity”: Old Books and Elizabethan Popularity’. In The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Smith E and Kesson A (Eds.). Forthcoming: Ashgate.
  • Munro LC. 2013. Forthcoming: ‘The Alchemist: Stage History’. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, electronic edition. Bevington D, Butler M, Donaldson I (Eds.).
  • Munro LC. 2012. Caroline Middleton. In The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton. Taylor G and Henley TT (Eds.).
  • Munro LC. 2012. Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood. In The Child in British Literature. Gavin AE (Ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Munro LC. 2012. The Early Modern Repertory and the Performance of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries Today. In Performing Early Modern Drama Today. Aebischer P and Prince K (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Munro LC. 2012. Thomas Middleton. In The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Garrett A Sullivan J and Stewart A (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Munro LC. 2011. 'Shakespeare and Drama'. In The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts. Wray R, Burnett MT, Street A (Eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • MUNRO L. 2010. Coriolanus and the (In)Authenticities of William Poel’s Platform Stage. In Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories. Dymkowski C and Carson C (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • MUNRO L. 2010. The Whitefriars Theatre and the Children’s Companies. In Ben Jonson in Context. Sanders J (Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • MUNRO L. 2010. Tragic Forms. In The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy. Smith E and Sullivan G (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Britland K and Munro L. 2009. Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events, Movements. In The Renaissance Literature Handbook. Bruce SAI and Steinberger RAC (Eds.). London, England: Continuum. link>
  • MUNRO L. 2009. Music and Sound. In The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. Dutton R (Ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • MUNRO L. 2008. King Lear on Screen. In King Lear de William Shakespeare. Goddard SL (Ed.). Paris: Éditions du Temps.
  • MUNRO L. 2007. '"Coriolanus" and the little eyases: the boyhood of Shakespeare's hero'. In Shakespeare and Childhood. Chedgzoy K, Greenhalgh S, Shaughnessy R (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • MUNRO L. 2007. Dublin tragicomedy and London stages. In Early Modern Tragicomedy. Mukherji S and Lyne R (Eds.). Cambridge: DS Brewer.
  • Munro L. 2006. Virolet and Martia the Pirate's Daughter: Gender and Genre in Fletcher and Massinger's 'The Double Marriage'. In Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650. Jowitt C (Ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Munro L. 2006. Francis Beaumont. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Kastan DS (Ed.). (vol. 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Munro L. 2006. Reading Printed Comedy: Edward Sharpham's The Fleer. In The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England. Straznicky M (Ed.). Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. link>
  • Munro L. 2006. The Knight of the Burning Pestle and Generic Experimentation. In Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion. Sullivan GA, Cheney P, Hadfield A (Eds.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. link>
  • MUNRO L. 2005. Little Apes and Tender Babes: Children in Three Film Versions of Richard III. In Shakespeare on Screen: Richard III. Hatchuel S and Vienne-Guerrin N (Eds.). Rouen: Publications de l’Université de Rouen.
  • MUNRO L and POLLARD T. 2004. English Renaissance Tobacco. In Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. GOODMAN J (Ed.).
  • MUNRO L. 2004. Giles Fletcher, the Elder. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). (vol. 20). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • MUNRO L. 2004. Richard Robinson. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). (vol. 47). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Other

  • Bernard M, Rickett M, Amigoni D, Munro L, Murray M, Rezzano J. 2011. AGEING UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT: IDENTITY AND LATER LIFE WITHIN THE THEATRE. GERONTOLOGIST (vol. 51, p. 360). link>
  • MUNRO L. 2010. John Fletcher, "The Tamer Tamed".
  • MUNRO L. 2010. Richard Brome, "The Queen and Concubine", in Richard Brome Online, gen. ed. Richard Allen Cave. link>
  • MUNRO L. 2006. Edward Sharpham, "The Fleer".
  • MUNRO L. Richard Brome, "The Demoiselle", in Richard Brome Online, gen. ed. Richard Allen Cave. link>

I currently teach on these undergraduate modules: Reading Literature (Level 1); Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry (Level 1); The Age of Shakespeare and Donne (Level 2); The Drawn Sword: Literature and the English Civil War (Level 2); Twentieth-Century Novels into Film (Level 2); Shakespeare on Film (Level 3); and and Shakespearean Stages (Level 3).  I also teach and supervise students for the MA in English Literatures and the MRes in Humanities.  I have supervised or supervise PhD students working on seventeenth-century manuscript poetry and twentieth-century drama, and I would be happy to supervise research in any of my areas of interest.