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Dr Edel Lamb

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Dr Edel Lamb

Dr Edel Lamb

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Lamb’s research focuses on early modern literature, Renaissance performance cultures, and childhood studies. Her book, Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre, offered a new understanding of early modern childhood through its focus on the child performer.

Her second book, Reading Children in Early Modern Culture, explores how textual cultures articulate alternative understandings of childhood. She is developing a collaborative project, Shakespeare and Riot, that examines Shakespeare as a battleground for cultural, social and national identity.

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  • e.lamb@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3443
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Early modern studies, particularly Shakespeare and Renaissance performance cultures
  • Age, childhood and gender in early modern literature and culture
  • Early modern literature (especially drama) and civil unrest, including protest, riot

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Organiser of an event for children and young people at the Ulster Museum, ‘Discover Shakespeare’, as partof the British Council’s ‘Shakespeare Lives Across the Island’ programme (2016)

Research students

PhD Title Colour in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title  Post-Shoah Shylocks: Adapting The Merchant of Venice for Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Audiences
Country  USA
   
PhD Title  Antiquity in Early Modern Women’s Drama: 1553-1663
Country  China

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage
Country United Kingdom
Current Position  Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of Oslo 
   

 

 


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