Projects
Explore funded research, collaborations, and editorial initiatives led by Professor Ravelhofer.
Records of Early English Drama North-East
Sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
REED-NE aims to find, catalogue and edit all records pertaining to music, spectacle, ceremony, dance and theatre in England’s North-East from about the eighth century to 1642. Funded by the AHRC for the period 2013-18, the project was directed by Prof. John McKinnell (PI) and Prof. Ravelhofer (Co-I) in collaboration with Durham’s Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), Durham Cathedral, and Durham’s World Heritage Site. The team comprised editors from the UK, US and Canada, two postdoctoral researchers, and two PhD students, and they coordinated their activities with the REED headquarters at the University of Toronto.
The Complete Works of James Shirley (OUP)
Sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
James Shirley (1596-1666) was a Caroline writer in the tradition of the great Elizabethans and Jacobeans. An innovative dramatist specializing in tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, masque, pastoral, entertainment, morality, and neo-miracle, Shirley wrote for a wide variety of theatres, ranging from the Blackfriars to the first public playhouse in Dublin. He also composed poems and grammars. Shirley’s strong female characters prepared the ground for women on the Restoration stage. Critics still appreciate his elegant craftsmanship, his fast-paced, witty dialogues, and his detached portrayal of social manners. The Complete Works of James Shirley (gen. eds T. Grant, E. Giddens, and B. Ravelhofer) comprises a corpus of around 50 works in 10 volumes, including plays, poems, and prose. It currently involves over thirty scholars from the UK, US, Germany, and South Africa.
Professor Barbara Ravelhofer 