Dr Edel Lamb
BA, MA, PhD Queen’s University Belfast
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
N321 John Woolley Building (A20)
+61 2 93517448
My research interests lie in the field of early modern literature; in particular, theatre and performance culture and representations of childhood in the period. My current project, Reading Children in Early Modern Culture, examines the range of texts produced for and read by children in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This develops my earlier work on the early modern children's playing companies, Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre.
Research areas
- Children and concepts of childhood in early modern literature and culture
- Early modern theatre and performance cultures
Current Projects
- Reading Children in Early Modern Culture (ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2013)
Selected Publications
Books
- Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children’s Playing Companies (1599-1613), Early Modern Literature in History Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Articles
- ‘Becoming Men: The Child Player in Jonson’s Epicene’, Ben Jonson Journal, 15.2 (Nov 2008), pp. 175-93.
- ‘The Literature of Early Modern Childhood’, Literature Compass (forthcoming 2010).
Book Chapters
- ‘Boys’ Plays’, The New Companion to Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. Michael Hattaway, Blackwell Press (forthcoming March 2010).
- ‘Shakespeare and the Renaissance Stage’, The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, ed. Mark Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming 2010).
- ‘“Children read for their Pleasantness”: Books for Schoolchildren in the Seventeenth Century’, The Child in British Literature, ed. Adrienne Gavin, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2010).
- ‘The Critical Background’, IHenryIV, Continuum Renaissance Drama Series, ed. Stephen Longstaffe, Continuum (forthcoming 2010).