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Dr Tom Rutter
BA, PhD
Phone 0114 225 4225
E-mail t.rutter@shu.ac.uk
Current work
My research focuses on early modern literature, especially drama, with a particular emphasis on playing companies and their repertories.
My main research project at the moment is a study of the Admiral's Men playing company, in particular the influence of Marlowe's plays on their repertory and their repertory's influence on Shakespeare. In 2010 I gave papers derived from this research at the Renaissance Society of America conference and the Oxford conference on Henry Chettle's Hoffman, and in 2009 I organised and chaired a seminar on playing companies at the British Shakespeare Association conference.
I am an editor of the journal Shakespeare and am on the editorial board of the Lost Plays Database.
My Introduction to Marlowe (Cambridge University Press) is forthcoming in 2012, and I am contributing to a Blackwell Companion to British Literature and a Marlowe in Context volume for Cambridge UP.
Major publications
'Englishmen for My Money: Work and Social Conflict?', Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Natasha Korda (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 87-99
'Issues in Review: Dramatists, Playing Companies, and Repertories', Early Theatre 13.3 (2011), 121-89 (edited collection including 'Introduction: The Repertory-Based Approach, 121-32)
'Marlowe, the 'Mad Priest of the Sun', and Heliogabalus', Early Theatre 13.2 (2010), 109-20
'Adult Playing Companies 1603 to 1613', The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, ed. Richard Dutton (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), 72-87
'Marlovian Echoes in the Repertory of the Admiral's Men', Shakespeare Bulletin 27.1 (Spring 2009), 27-38: 'exceptionally well researched, written, and argued' (Marlowe Society of America Newsletter)
Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008): 'a formidable piece of scholarship … a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of the London theatrical marketplace and the elements of society that supported it' (Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England)
'Repertory Studies: An Overview', Shakespeare 4.3 (September 2008) 352-66
'Patient Grissil and Jonsonian Satire', Studies in English Literature 48.2 (Spring 2008), 283-303
'The Actors in Sir Thomas More', Shakespeare Yearbook, 16 (2007), 223-40
'Merchants of Venice in A Knack to Know an Honest Man', Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 19 (2006), 194-209
'Fit Hamlet, Fat Hamlet, and the Problems of Aristocratic Labour', Cahiers Elisabéthains 68 (Autumn 2005), 27-32
Impact
I contributed an essay on Hamlet to the programme notes for Hamlet, dir. Paul Miller, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2010
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