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 Kathy Hannah Eden FBA

History of rhetoric, especially ancient and early modern; its impact on the theory and practice of literature in Europe between the late 14th and 16th centuries

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Professor Tiffany Stern FBA

Shakespeare, theatre history from the 16th to the 18th century, book history and editing

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Professor Richard McCabe FBA

Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.

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