Professor Martin Butler FBA

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Professor of Renaissance Drama, University of Leeds

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Kerrigan FBA

Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

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Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing

Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

English Literature, especially of the Renaissance (Nashe, Shakespeare and Spenser); Anglo-Irish literary relations; travel and colonial writing; literature and politics; class; national identity; biography

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

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