Dermot Cavanagh
Senior Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 2.18
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour in semester 2: Tuesday 3:10- 4.10pm
Background
Dermot Cavanagh joined the department in 2003 having taught previously at the universities of Northumbria and Exeter. He has written widely on early modern literature, especially on Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre.
Research summary
Dermot Cavanagh’s principal research interest lies in early modern political drama. He is currently working on a critical study of Shakespeare and the commonwealth. He welcomes research proposals in any area of early modern literature and theatre, but especially from those with interests in the following: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Reformation and sixteenth-century writing, historical and tragic theatre, political ideas and critical theory.
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William Drummond of Hawthornden as reader of Renaissance drama
(22 pages)
In:
The Review of English Studies (RES), vol. 66, pp. 676-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgv027
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Edinburgh introduction to studying English literature: Second edition
(261 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Politic Bodies in Macbeth
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472503220.ch-003
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Modes of Satire
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Political Theology in George Buchanan’s Baptistes
(15 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Sovereignty and Commonwealth in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2
(16 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566471.013.0037
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Georgic Sovereignty in Henry V
(12 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521769150.011
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
History and Politics
(8 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
(240 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Political Tragedy in the 1560s: Cambises and Gorboduc
(16 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published)