Professor Laurie Maguire

My research centres on the English Renaissance (mainly, but not exclusively, drama) but within this sphere my interests are broad: textual studies, theatre history, classical influences on Renaissance writers, translation and language-learning, contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s plays, literature and medicine, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. I am currently working on several book projects: a biography of Judith Shakespeare (one of Shakespeare’s daughters); a book on dramatic collaboration (written collaboratively with Emma Smith of Hertford College); and a book on medical humanities. I also teach an annual course on Medical Humanities for the Medical School.