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Associate Professor (Reader)

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About

Dr Stephen Purcell is Associate Professor (Reader), and teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program. He joined Warwick in October 2011 from Southampton Solent University, where he co-developed and led the English Literature degree scheme. He also directs for the theatre company The Pantaloons.

Research interests

My research focuses on the performance of the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries on the modern stage and on screen. My particular research interests include theories of the audience, space, popular culture, parody, adaptation, and comedy, and I am as interested in 鈥楽hakespeare鈥� as a 20th- and 21st-century cultural phenomenon as I am in Shakespeare the dramatist. I regularly lead practical workshops on Shakespeare at conferences and elsewhere.

Teaching and supervision

I would be keen to supervise projects on Shakespeare and his contemporaries in performance, and on modern performance theory and practice. I am keen to encourage practice-as-research projects.

Completed PhD supervisions:

• Andrew Fletcher, 鈥楽hakespeare and the Fiction of Theatre鈥�
• Julie Hudson, 鈥楾he Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter?鈥� (2017) co-supervised with Prof. Carol Rutter
• Angus Love, 鈥楤adiou鈥檚 Twisted Contemporaneity: Inaesthetics, Spectatorship and the Contemporary鈥� (Chancellor's), co-supervised with Prof.Thomas Docherty
• Sophie Shorland, 鈥樷�淏lazing Stars鈥�: Early Modern Celebrity Culture, 1580-1626鈥� (CADRE)
• Alys Daroy, 鈥楤iophilic Shakespeare鈥� (Warwick Monash Alliance), co-supervised with Dr Paul Prescott and Dr Fiona Gregory (Monash).
• Yangzi Zhou, 鈥樷�淟ive鈥� is Elsewhere: Intermedial Theatricality in British Theatre Broadcasting Programmes, 2009-2020鈥� (China Scholarships Council / 91影视破解版), co-supervised with Dr Tim White.

Current PhD students:

• Yuqi Jiang, 鈥楽upernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Adult Company Plays, 1587-1623鈥� (Midlands 4 Cities), co-supervised with Prof. Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute) and Prof. Tom Lockwood (Birmingham)

Selected publications

Monographs

• Shakespeare in the Theatre: Kathryn Hunter (Arden Shakespeare, 2026)
• (Manchester University Press, 2025)
• (Arden Shakespeare, 2017)
• (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)

• (Palgrave, 2012)

• (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies, 2009)

Other publications

• 鈥楽hakespeare and the UK : 鈥淏rand Britain鈥� and the British Shakespearean repertoire, 1997-2017鈥�, in
  (ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Bloomsbury / Arden Shakespeare, 2024)
• 鈥樷�淭hat鈥檚 Power鈥�: Representations of Performance in Shakespearean Biofiction鈥�, in (eds Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull, Bloomsbury / Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
• 鈥樷�淚 am here as a tourist鈥�: on being a tourist-spectator鈥�, in (eds Robert Ormsby and Valerie Clayman Pye, Routledge, 2022)
• 鈥楶laying with the audience in Othello鈥�, in (eds Simon Smith and Emma Whipday, Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• 鈥楾he Player鈥檚 Game: The Activity of the Player in Early Modern Drama鈥�, in (eds Erika T. Lin, Gina Bloom and Tom Bishop, Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
• 鈥�Locus and platea in modern Shakespearean performance鈥�, in T (eds Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince, Bloombury / Arden Shakespeare, 2021)
• (with Paul Prescott) (Shakespeare Survey 73, 2020)
• (with Paul Prescott) (Shakespeare Survey 72, 2019)
• 鈥榃ho are we talking about when we talk about the audience?鈥� in (ed. Fiona Banks, Arden Shakespeare, 2018)
• (Shakespeare Survey 71, 2018)

• (Shakespeare Bulletin 36:1, 2018)

• (Shakespeare 14:1, 2018)

• 鈥榃hose Experiment is it Anyway?: Some Models for Practice-as-Research in Shakespeare Studies鈥� in (eds Castaldo & Knight, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018)

• (Shakespeare Survey 70, 2018)

• 鈥樷�業t鈥檚 All a Bit of a Risk鈥�: Reformulating 鈥楲iveness鈥� in Twenty-First Century Performances of Shakespeare鈥� in  (ed James C. Bulman, Oxford University Press, 2017)

• (Shakespeare Bulletin 35:3, 2017)

• 鈥楽hakespeare in Amateur Production鈥� in (eds Levenson & Ormsby, Routledge, 2017)
• 鈥楽ynecdoches and Symbols: Fictional Performances of King Lear鈥� ( 26:52, 2017)
• (Shakespeare Survey 69, 2016)
• (Shakespeare Bulletin 34:1, 2016)
• (Shakespeare Jahrbuch 151, 2015)
• 鈥楽hakespeare, Spectatorship, and the 鈥淥lympic Spirit鈥濃�� in (eds Prescott & Sullivan, Arden Shakespeare, 2015)

• 鈥楾he Impact of New Forms of Public Performance鈥� in (eds Carson & Kirwan, Cambridge University Press, 2014)

• (Shakespeare Survey 66, 2013)
• 鈥楾ouch and Taboo in Rah-e-Sabz鈥� The Comedy of Errors鈥� in (eds Bennett & Carson, Cambridge University Press, 2013)

• Reviews of The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Love鈥檚 Labour鈥檚 Lost, Pericles and Troilus and Cressida in (eds Edmondson, Prescott & Sullivan, Arden Shakespeare, 2013)

• 鈥楽hakespeare on Television鈥� in (eds Burnett, Streete & Wray, Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

• 鈥楳arcello Magni鈥� in (eds Brown & Ewert, Routledge, 2011)

• (Shakespeare 6:3, 2010)

Qualifications

• BA; MA; PhD (Kent)