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Professor Lisa Hopkins

Lisa did the MA in English and European Renaissance Drama 1983-4 and then a PhD on John Ford 1984-6, and is now Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University. She is co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association (link) and co-edits two series for Bloomsbury, Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Arden Early Modern Drama Guides: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) She has also published widely on Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ford.

Recent books include:

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030657598 )

Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020) and From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage (ARC Humanities Press, 2017).

A Companion to the Cavendishes, co-edited with Tom Rutter ( https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781641894661/a-companion-to-the-cavendishes/ ).

'Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction: DCI Shakespeare' (Palgrave, 2016),

'Renaissance Drama on the Edge' (Ashgate, 2014),

'Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633' (Ashgate, 2011) (link).

Lisa Hopkins