Eoin Price

Lecturer in English Literature, 1500-1650

  • English Literature
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Contact details

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2.04, 21 Buccleuch Place
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, EH8 9LH

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Availability

  • Drop-in hours: Monday, 13:00-14:00 (please email for an appointment)

Biography

Background

I completed my BA and MA in my hometown, at the University of Liverpool. I then studied for a PhD at the the Shakespeare Institute, in Stratford-upon-Avon. I worked at Swansea University for 9 years before joining the University of Edinburgh in January 2024. My work focuses on practices of playing and playgoing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the textual and theatrical afterlives of plays from that period in later centuries, including our own. I am particularly invested in challenging ingrained assumptions about temporality and the early modern literary and theatrical canon. My work on early modern playgoing was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and I have received library fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Huntington Library to support archival research into the performance and reception history of early modern plays in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Responsibilities & affiliations

I am currently the Year Abroad Coordinator for English and Scottish Literature.

Undergraduate teaching

This year, I am teaching the Honours courses Early Modern Comedy, Early Modern Tragedy, and Shakespeare Adapted. I am the course organizer for the latter two.  I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on a range of topics. At pre-honours level I provide lectures on performance on LS1A and I both lecture and teach tutorials on LS2A.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I am very pleased to hear from students interested in completing a PhD on any topic of early modern theatre, including the contemporary performance of plays by Shakespeare.

Current PhD students supervised

I am currently second supervisor to students working on subjects including monstrosity in early modern literature; Shakespeare and educational institutions; and early modern revenge drama.

Research summary

I am the author of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Playhouses in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2015) and I have written numerous articles and essays on early modern drama on subjects including theatre history, book history, and the contemporary performance of early modern plays.  With Prof Farah Karim-Cooper, I  co-edited a special issue of the journal Shakespeare emerging from the 2019 British Shakespeare Association Conference I organized at Swansea University on the subject of Shakespeare, race, and nation.

My current book project, Playgoing Time in Elizabethan London, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press and which has been supported by the award of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, reassesses foundational claims about drama and temporality, arguing against production-focused accounts which have tended to dominate the field of early drama research. My work on this project won the 2020 Calvin and G. Rose Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe. Alongside this book, I have also co-edited Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama, with Harry Newman (Royal Holloway, University of London). The collection, which is in production with Cambridge University Press, challenges the fetishization of firsts in print and performance studies, offering a new account of the repetition and renewal of early modern drama. Alongside these different projects, which offer new perspectives on theatrical temporality, I am currently writing the introduction to the Oxford World's Classics edition of Shakespeare's The Second Part of Henry IV.

I am also researching a book entitled Shakespeare’s Successors which focuses on the plays written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger for the King’s Men in the decades after Shakespeare’s death and on the textual and theatrical afterlives in the centuries that followed. My work on this project has received funding from the Society for Theatre Research and I have won research fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Huntington Library, to undertake archival work.

I enjoy engaging with wider public audiences, creative practitioners, and cultural institutions and I am looking forward to continuing and deepening my public-facing collaborations in Edinburgh, a city with a rich literary and theatrical heritage. In the past I have featured on the popular history podcast Not Just the Tudors, and on a BBC Radio 3 documentary about the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene.

Past project grants

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2022-2023
Huntington Library Fellowship, 2020
Harry Ransom Center Fellowship, 2018

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