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Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Email Address: Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 0131 6503606
Office: Room 7.06, David Hume Tower
Office hours: Semester Two: Monday 4 - 5 pm
Senior Lecturer in English
Dermot Cavanagh joined the department in 2003 having taught previously at the universities of Northumbria and Exeter. He has written widely on early modern literature, especially on Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre.
Dermot Cavanagh’s principal research interest lies in early modern political theatre and especially its relationship to late medieval drama and poetry. His current research explores how forms of mourning and lament affect the representation of sovereignty in pre-modern tragedy. Dr Cavanagh welcomes research proposals in any area of early modern literature and drama, but especially from those with interests in the following: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Reformation and sixteenth-century writing, historical and tragic theatre, political ideas and critical theory.
- Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
- Shakespeare’s Histories and Counter-Histories, co-edited with Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Steve Longstaffe (Manchester University Press, 2006).
- ‘‘The Paradox of Sedition in John Bale’s King Johan,’ English Literary Renaissance 31 (2001): 171-191.
- ‘Uncivil Monarchy: Scotland, England and the Reputation of James IV,’ in Early Modern Civil Discourses, ed. Jennifer Richards (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 146-61.
- ‘History, Memory, and Mourning in Henry V,’ in Shakespeare’s Histories and Counter-Histories (2006), pp. 32-48.
- ‘Reforming Sovereignty: John Bale and Tragic Drama’ in Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Power, Gender and Theatricality, eds. Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken (Rodopi, 2006), pp. 191-210.
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