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Dr Emma Whipday is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at UCL, and a Globe Education Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. Emma is interested in family, gender, and power on stage and in popular culture in early modern England. Her current project explores the cultural importance of the brother-sister relationship, and how it intersects with issues of patriarchal power, female agency, domestic authority, and the place of the unmarried woman in early modern society.
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Emma studied English Language and Literature at Oxford as an undergraduate, before studying for an MA in ‘English: Shakespeare in History’ and a PhD on ‘Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies: Disrupted Homes on the Early Modern Page, Stage and Street’ at UCL. She has taught at UCL, King’s College London, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Brasenose College, Oxford; and has published on Elizabethan true crimes; domestic tragedy; and performance practice as research. Emma’s thesis explored the relationship between Shakespeare’s tragedies and the genre of domestic tragedy. She is currently revising the resulting monograph, Shakespeare's Violent Homes, which argues that in Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, Shakespeare creates new versions of domestic tragedy, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds. Emma is also a playwright.
Peer-reviewed Publications
‘Everyday Murder and Household Work in Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies’, Staged Normality in Early Modern England ed. by Edel Semple and Rory Loughnane (Palgrave, forthcoming)
‘“Original Practices and Historical Imagination”: Staging A Tragedie Called Merrie’, with Freyja Cox Jensen, Shakespeare Bulletin 35.2 (Summer 2017), 289-307
‘Is He a Dramatist? Or, Something Singular! Staging Dickensian Drama as Practice-Led Research’, with Oskar Cox Jensen and Joanna Robinson, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 43.2 (Summer 2017), 160-182
‘Daniel’s Cleopatra and Lady Anne Clifford: From a Jacobean Portrait to Modern Performance’, with Helen Hackett and Yasmin Arshad, Early Theatre 18.2 (2015), 167–86
‘“Marrow Prying Neighbours”: Staging Domestic Space and Neighbourhood Surveillance in Arden of Faversham’, Cahiers Élisabéthains 88.1 (October 2015), 95–110
‘“The Picture of a Woman”: Roaring Girls and Alternative Histories in the RSC 2014 Season’, Shakespeare 11.3 (Aug 2015), 272–285
‘“A True Reporte”: News and the Neighbourhood in Early Modern Domestic Murder Texts’, in Simon Davies and Puck Fletcher (eds), News in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp.159–174
Conference Organisation
'Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England' (with Simon Smith), the Queen's College, Oxford, June 2017
'The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service', London Renaissance Seminar, Birkbeck, July 2015
‘Everyday Murder and Household Work in Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies’, Staged Normality in Early Modern England ed. by Edel Semple and Rory Loughnane (Palgrave, forthcoming)
‘“Original Practices and Historical Imagination”: Staging A Tragedie Called Merrie’, with Freyja Cox Jensen, Shakespeare Bulletin 35.2 (Summer 2017), 289-307
‘Is He a Dramatist? Or, Something Singular! Staging Dickensian Drama as Practice-Led Research’, with Oskar Cox Jensen and Joanna Robinson, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 43.2 (Summer 2017), 160-182
‘Daniel’s Cleopatra and Lady Anne Clifford: From a Jacobean Portrait to Modern Performance’, with Helen Hackett and Yasmin Arshad, Early Theatre 18.2 (2015), 167–86
‘“Marrow Prying Neighbours”: Staging Domestic Space and Neighbourhood Surveillance in Arden of Faversham’, Cahiers Élisabéthains 88.1 (October 2015), 95–110
‘“The Picture of a Woman”: Roaring Girls and Alternative Histories in the RSC 2014 Season’, Shakespeare 11.3 (Aug 2015), 272–285
‘“A True Reporte”: News and the Neighbourhood in Early Modern Domestic Murder Texts’, in Simon Davies and Puck Fletcher (eds), News in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp.159–174
Conference Organisation
'Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England' (with Simon Smith), the Queen's College, Oxford, June 2017
'The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service', London Renaissance Seminar, Birkbeck, July 2015
Public Engagement
You can listen to Emma talking about domestic violence in Macbeth on BBC Radio 3's 'Free Thinking' (11 April 2018), with James Shapiro and Mark Ravenhill.
You can watch Emma discussing Jacobean masques in the BBC documentary The Best King We Never Had (aired 30 November 2017), along with a clip from her production of Masque of Queens.
You can also see Emma discussing her research with Dr Freyja Cox Jensen in a TEDx talk, below.
You can listen to Emma talking about domestic violence in Macbeth on BBC Radio 3's 'Free Thinking' (11 April 2018), with James Shapiro and Mark Ravenhill.
You can watch Emma discussing Jacobean masques in the BBC documentary The Best King We Never Had (aired 30 November 2017), along with a clip from her production of Masque of Queens.
You can also see Emma discussing her research with Dr Freyja Cox Jensen in a TEDx talk, below.
