PhD Researcher

Email: Hannah.Bradshaw@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisors: Dr David Coates and Prof Tim Lockley

About

Hannah is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies collaborating between the University of Warwick and Woburn Abbey and the Bedford Estates. She undertook her BA (Hons) in Art History at the University of Sydney, receiving First Class and the University Medal. She completed her MLitt in Dress & Textile Histories at the University of Glasgow.

Research Interests

The project's working title is 'Theatre and the Aristocracy: Passion, Patronage, Power and Politics, 1771-1893.' Hannah's approach will combine these research areas through a focus on the private theatre at Woburn Abbey in the early nineteenth century. In doing so, she will investigate the politics of female aristocratic patronage and examine the interplay between the actual theatre and the theatricality and performance of aristocracy beyond the immediate space of the theatre