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Emma is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University. Emma is interested in family, gender, and power on stage and in popular culture in early modern England. Her book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is co-winner of the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020, and is now available in paperback. Emma has also published articles on early modern 'true crime', staging domestic and sexual violence, and performance practice-as-research. Emma is currently working on non-traditional families in early modern England. Emma regularly speaks about her research in the media; recent appearances include BBC Woman's Hour, and an interval interview for the live screening of the RSC Measure for Measure.
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Practice -as -ResearchEmma is interested in what we can learn about early modern drama by staging it today. She has directed a number of practice-as-research productions, staged readings, and workshops, working with Shakespeare's Globe, Northern Stage, the National Trust, and the Wellcome Collection. |
PlaywritingEmma is a playwright: her new play The Defamation of Cicely Lee is the winner of the American Shakespeare Center's 'Shakespeare's New Contemporaries' competition. Her play Shakespeare's Sister has been published by Samuel French, and received its international premiere at the ASC in Spring 2016. Emma has written adaptations of Sense and Sensibility (2017) and Emma (2018) for the ASC, and is working on a play about the Jacobean 'Belvoir Castle witches', which recently received a staged reading at the London Shakespeare Centre (2019).
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