Author:
Callan Davies
Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture
University of Southampton
Dr Callan Davies is a literary, theatre, and cultural historian at the University of Roehampton.
Meet our team Guest PostsWe’re keen to keep this site lively and fresh with some of the latest thoughts and research–either road-testing ideas and works-in-progress or sharing some insights–from early theatre and performance. Content from doctoral researchers and early career colleagues are especially welcome, as well as from performers and practitioners!
We’re incredibly excited to be presenting the world premiere of Emma Frankland’s Galatea, commissioned by and as part of Brighton Festival, from the 5-21 May, 2023.
We are thrilled to announce that the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council have funded a new project, “Diverse Alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays,” with a new postdoctoral position.
Looking to escape the 2020s for a brief period? Wondering what alternatives you might find to a Christmas pantomime if you were in a different century? Or simply looking to sharpen up your Trivial Pursuit knowledge (with extremely niche facts…)?
Welcome to Elizabethan England via the digital world! This post takes the form of “remote quest(ions)” that take us on a tour of early modern recreation via a range of digital platforms…
For this piece, I’ll be spending a year in the young Curtain playhouse as it makes its way into the brave new decade of 1580s.