{"id":367,"date":"2019-12-31T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/?page_id=367"},"modified":"2019-12-31T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:00:15","slug":"professor-lucy-munro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/professor-lucy-munro\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Lucy Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor Lucy Munro took her BA in English Language and Literature at Manchester University, moving to King\u2019s College London for her MA and PhD. She worked at the University of Reading and Keele University, where she taught for the English, Film and Media degree programmes, before returning to King\u2019s in September 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is Secretary of the Marlowe Society of America, Publicity Officer for the Malone Society, and a member of the Architecture Research Group at Shakespeare\u2019s Globe and the steering group of the London Renaissance Seminar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thread that runs through Prof. Munro\u2019s research is an interest in the dynamic relationship between old and new in literary cultures and their afterlives.\u00a0 As a scholar and teacher of early modern literature, she is often concerned with presenting old texts to new audiences.\u00a0Moreover, her research has dealt explicitly with questions such as: the place of youth in early modern theatre; the function of outmoded style in early modern literary culture; the revival and reshaping of old plays in performance; and the role of ageing and memory in the theatre.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has published two books to date. The first,\u00a0Children of the Queen\u2019s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2005), focused on the most prominent of the children\u2019s playing companies of early modern London – the \u2018little eyases\u2019 of Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet – examining the company\u2019s history and their involvement in crucial developments in dramatic genre in the early 17th century.\u00a0 The second,\u00a0Archaic Style in Early Modern Literature, 1590-1674<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2013), is a study of the ways in which early modern writers use linguistic, poetic or dramatic styles that would have seemed old-fashioned to their first audiences or readers.\u00a0 Looking at the works of canonical figures such as Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser and Jonson alongside those of Robert Southwell, Anna Trapnel, William Cartwright and others, it argues that the attempts of writers to reconstruct outmoded styles within their own works reveal a largely untold story about the workings of literary influence and tradition, the interactions between past and present, and the uncertain contours of English nationhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theatre and Performance Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Writing a Play with Robert Daborne.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Early Modern England. ed. \/ Tiffany Stern. London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles and Book Chapters<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

‘As it was Played in the Blackfriars’: Jonson, Marston, and the Business of Playmaking.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.In:\u00a0ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Vol. 50, No. 2, 15.11.2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Owned the Blackfriars Playhouse.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.In:\u00a0SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY, 11.03.2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comedy, Clowning and the Caroline King\u2019s Men: Manuscript Plays and Performance.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.Early British Drama in Manuscript. ed. \/ Tamara Atkin; Laura Estill. Brepols, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drama and the Playhouse.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623. ed. \/ Kristen Poole; Lauren Shohet. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. p. 323-339.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare and the Playing Companies.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.Shakespeare on the Record. ed. \/ Hannah Crumm\u00e9. London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2019. p. 131-142.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Queen and the Cockpit: Henrietta Maria\u2019s Theatrical Patronage Revisited.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.In:\u00a0Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Many Children Had Giles Fletcher the Elder?\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy.In:\u00a0Notes and Queries, Vol. 65, No. 1, 01.03.2018, p. 122-127.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alarums: Edward II and the Staging of History.\u00a0\/\u00a0Munro, Lucy Catherine.Christopher Marlowe, Repertory, Commerce and the Book Trade. ed. \/ Roslyn Lander Knutson; Kirk Melnikoff. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018. p. 68.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performance and Artistic Collaboration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dr Munro has worked extensively with theatre organisations such as Shakespeare\u2019s Globe and the New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme.\u00a0 She also reviews books and theatre productions for\u00a0The Times Literary Supplement.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Lucy Munro took her BA in English Language and Literature at Manchester University, moving to King\u2019s College London for her MA and PhD. She worked at the University of Reading and Keele University, where she taught for the English, Film and Media degree programmes, before returning to King\u2019s in September 2013. She is Secretary … <\/p>\n

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