Participant Info
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Last Name
- Schafer
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- E.Schafer@rhul.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Website URL
- Keywords
- theatre history, Shakespeare performance history, women's history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I write theatre history and the performance history of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I have written a history of women directors working on Shakespeare – MsDirecting Shakespeare (Women’s Press, 1998). My Lilian Baylis: A Biography (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2006) offers a completely new view of this extremely influential woman, who was one of the founders of the UK’s National Theatre, the English National Opera, Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Ballet.
Currently I am writing a performance history of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Manchester University Press Shakespeare in Performance series.
I also do creative history and produced a ‘new’ play by Shakespeare called Margaret of Anjou for the 4ooth anniversary of Shakespeare’ death in 2016.
- Recent Publications
2018 Theatre & Christianity, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan
2017 ‘Much Ado About Age’, co-written with Sara Reimers, ‘Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader, Arden early modern drama guides, edited by Deborah Cartmell and Peter J.Smith, London: Bloomsbury:111-131 ISBN 978-1-4742-8437-0.
2015 ‘Re-forming Nostalgia: Geoffrey Rush and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Brisbane’, in Shakespeare and Emotions: Inheritances, Enactments, Legacies, edited by R.S. White, Mark Houlahan, Katrina O’Loughlin, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan: 240-250. ISBN 9781137464743.
2013 ‘Re-making Katherina: Julia Marlowe and The Shrew’, in Women Making Shakespeare, edited by Gordon McMullan, Lena Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan, London: Bloomsbury: 283-92. ISBN 9781408185339.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @lizjschafer
- Country Focus
- UK
- Expertise by Geography
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, Early Modern, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Women