Dr Paulina Kewes
Academic Background
Dr Kewes took her DPhil at Jesus College, Oxford in 1996. She was the J A Pye Junior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford (1995-1997) and held positions as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1997-2003) before returning to Jesus College as a Tutorial Fellow in 2003. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and Associate Member of the Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History at Oxford. She is on the Editorial Boards of Postgraduate English and of Politeja.
Undergraduate Teaching
Papers covering the period from 1509 to 1832, including those on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dryden, and Jonson. With Dr Ian Archer (Keble), she teaches an interdisciplinary paper on 'Representing the City, 1558-1640' for the Joint School of History and English.
Postgraduate Teaching
MSt courses on: 'Shakespeare, History, and Politics'; 'Imagining Early Modern London'; historiography; and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
Dr Kewes is a convenor of the Early Modern Literature Graduate Seminar, and of the Graduate Seminar on Literature and History in Early Modern England.
Research Interests
Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century century literature, esp. drama and civic pageantry; historiography; politics and political thought; classical reception; translation; Shakespeare; Dryden; histoire du livre; plagiarism..
Selected Publications
Books
- This Great Matter of Succession: Drama, History, and Elizabethan Politics (OUP, forthcoming in 2012).
- Ed. with Susan Doran, The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming in 2013).
- Ed. with Ian Archer and Felicity Heal, The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2012). See also The Holinshed Project.
- Ed. The Uses of History in Early Modern England (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2006), pp. ix +449.
- Ed. Plagiarism in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. xv+276.
- Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. xiv+304.
Journal Articles and Chapters in Books
- 'Peter Wentworth, Robert Persons, and the Succession Debate in Manuscript and Print', in The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England, ed. Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming in 2013).
- With Susan Doran, ‘The Elizabethan Succession and the Protestant Political Nation’, in ibid.
- ‘History Plays and the Royal Succession’, in The Oxford Handbook to Holinshed's Chronicles, ed. Kewes, Archer, and Heal (OUP, forthcoming in 2012).
- 'Henry Savile's Tacitus and the Politics of Roman History in Late Elizabethan England', Huntington Library Quarterly, 74: 4 (2011), 515-51.
- "A fit memoriall for the times to come...": Admonition and Topical Application in Mary Sidney's Antonius and Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra', Review of English Studies, advance access May 2011; forthcoming in print in 2012.
- 'The Exclusion Crisis of 1553 and the Elizabethan Succession', in Mary Tudor: New Perspectives, ed. Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 49-61.
- 'Godly Queens: The Royal Iconographies of Mary and Elizabeth', in Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, ed. Anna Whitelock and Alice Hunt (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 47-62.
- 'Two Queens, One Inventory: The Lives of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor', Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England, ed. Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 187-207.
- 'Acts of Oblivion, Acts of Remembrance: Rhetoric, Law, and National Memory in Early Restoration England', in Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Institutions of Repetition in Euro-American Cultures, 1650-1832, ed. Lorna Clymer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. 103-31.
- 'Greek and Roman Drama' and 'French Drama', in The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, ed. Peter France and Stuart Gillespie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 241-52 and 317-27 respectively.
- 'Jewish History and Christian Providence in Elizabethan England: The Contexts of Thomas Legge's Solymitana Clades (The Destruction of Jerusalem), c. 1579-88', in Style: Essays on Renaissance Poetics and Culture, ed. Allen Michie and Eric Buckley (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005), pp. 228-66.
- 'Contemporary Europe in Elizabethan and Stuart Drama', in Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe, ed. Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond (London: Nelson, 2004), pp. 150-92.
- 'Dryden's Theatre and the Passions of Politics', in the Cambridge Companion to John Dryden, ed. Steven N. Zwicker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 129-53.
- 'The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre?', in A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, vol. II: The Histories, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 170-93.
- 'Roman History and Early Stuart Drama: Thomas Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece', English Literary Renaissance, 32 (2002), 239-67.
- 'Julius Caesar in Jacobean England', The Seventeenth Century, 17 (2002), 155-86.
- 'Shakespeare's Lives in Print, 1662-1821', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, ed. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2002), pp. 55-82.
- '"The State is out of Tune": Nicholas Rowe's Jane Shore and the Succession Crisis of 1713-1714', Huntington Library Quarterly, 64 (2001), 301-21.
- 'Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play', in A Companion to Restoration Drama, ed. Susan J. Owen (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 355-77.
- 'Plays as Property, 1660-1710', in A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration, ed. Alan Houston and Steven A. Pincus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 211-40.
- '"A Play, which I presume to call original": Appropriation, Creative Genius, and Eighteenth-Century Playwriting', Studies in the Literary Imagination, 34 (2001), 17-47.
- 'Dryden and the Staging of Popular Politics', in John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays, ed. Paul Hammond and David Hopkins (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), pp. 57-91.
- 'Shakespeare and New Drama', in A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, ed. David Womersley (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 575-88.
- 'Gerard Langbaine's "View of Plagiaries": The Rhetoric of Dramatic Appropriation in the Restoration', The Review of English Studies, n.s. 48 (1997), 2-18.
- 'Between the "Triumvirate of wit" and the Bard: The English Dramatic Canon, 1660-1720', in Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England, ed. Cedric Brown and Arthur F. Marotti (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 200-24.
- '"Give me the sociable Pocket-books": Humphrey Moseley's Serial Publication of Octavo Play Collections', Publishing History, 38 (1995), 5-21.
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
Classics and English
English Language and Literature
English and Modern Languages
History and English
See also Faculty of English website.
