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Peter Kirwan

Assistant Professor in Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama

Faculty of Arts

I have a particular interest in the dividing line between 'Shakespeare' and 'not-Shakespeare' and the ways in which 'Shakespeare' is constructed and defined to meet particular needs. Specific areas of expertise include: collaborative and disputed authorship; book and editing history; contemporary performance and screen adaptations; digital Shakespeare.

Misremembering Shakespeare

Peter Kirwan -

November 18, 2015

One of my current strands of research in Shakespearean performance is how memory works in relation to the use of quotations. Anyone who has seen Hamlet, for instance, might have encountered the bemusing situation where an actor begins ‘To be…’...

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