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Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward (2022)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (in press). Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward. Early Theatre, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.12745/et.25.2.4733

This article discusses the exploration of the repertory model in Tom Stuart’s 2019 play After Edward, produced at Shakespeare’s Globe. Performed in repertory with a production of Edward II, After Edward dramatizes Diana Taylor’s sense of repertoire;... Read More about Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward.

Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen (2021)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2021). Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen. Shakespeare Bulletin, 39(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2021.0011

Drawing on Hilary Mantel's evocation of the frozen body of the monarch as an object to be gazed upon and consumed, this article revisits three cinematic Shakespearean films in order to demonstrate the ways in which kings are made abject. By applying... Read More about Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen.

The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season (2015)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2015). The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season. Shakespeare, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2015.1048277

This essay interrogates the loading of the “Roaring Girls” season by asking what it means to “roar” in both the early modern period and twenty-first century, unpacking the terms on which the women of these productions are empowered or undermined thro... Read More about The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season.

"You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic (2014)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2014). "You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic. Shakespeare Bulletin, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2014.0009

This article addresses the construction of Shakespearean reputation and legacy in contemporary film through re-evaluation of the much-derided Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, 2011), in addition to John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998). In both films, t... Read More about "You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic.

Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons (2012)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2012). Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons. Literature Compass, 9(8), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00898.x

The Shakespeare Apocrypha has persisted as a category for plays of dubious authorship since 1908. Despite recent calls for this group to be dissolved, it persists as the “other” of the Shakespeare canon. The definition of the plays as a collectively... Read More about Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons.

The Shakespeare apocrypha and canonical expansion in the marketplace (2012)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2012). The Shakespeare apocrypha and canonical expansion in the marketplace

An essay is presented on the marketing of William Shakespeare's literary works. It offers a discussion on the process of canonization and examines the theatrical production "Double Falsehood," by Lewis Theobald. The author also reflects on the critic... Read More about The Shakespeare apocrypha and canonical expansion in the marketplace.

The first collected “Shakespeare Apocrypha” (2011)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2011). The first collected “Shakespeare Apocrypha”. Shakespeare Quarterly, 62(4), https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.2011.0077

The anonymous plays Mucedorus, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, and Fair Em derive their spurious attribution to Shakespeare from a volume entitled "Shakespeare Vol. 1" that once belonged to David Garrick. Despite its significance, this volume has not be... Read More about The first collected “Shakespeare Apocrypha”.

“What’s past is prologue”: negotiating the authority of tense in reviewing Shakespeare (2010)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2010). “What’s past is prologue”: negotiating the authority of tense in reviewing Shakespeare. Shakespeare, 6(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2010.497856

This paper, rooted in reviewing practice, engages with a little-discussed practical aspect of reviewing: the tense in which a theatre review is written. Noting that journalistic reviews use the present tense, whereas academic reviews use the past, th... Read More about “What’s past is prologue”: negotiating the authority of tense in reviewing Shakespeare.