University of Chichester

Duncan Salkeld

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Duncan SlakeldContact Details

Tel: +44 (0) 1243 816184
Email: d.salkeld@chi.ac.uk

Dr. Duncan Salkeld is Senior Lecturer in English at the University. He is author of Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (Manchester University Press, 1993), and several articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Dr Salkeld would be interested in working with PhD-level students studying Shakespeare. His recent publications include:

  • ‘New Historicism’ in C. Knellwolf and C. Norris (eds.) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 9 (Cambridge University Press, 2001);
  • ‘The Zoppino Dialogue’ (original 1539 Italian text with English translation) in Mediterranean Studies Vol. 10, pp. 49-116;
  • ‘Shakespeare Staging Shakespeare’ in Sh@kespeare in the Media, eds. S.Brusberg-Kiermeir and J. Helbig (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003), 2005, pp. 11-23;
  • ‘Literary Traces in Bridewell and Bethlem, 1602-24’, The Review of English Studies, New Series, June, Vol. 56 (2005), No. 225, 379-85;
  • ‘New Allusions to London ‘Shewes’ and Playhouses, 1575-1605’, REED journal Early Theatre, Vol. 8.2, (2005) December, 101-8.

He has a chapter on Henry V forthcoming in Richard Meek, Jane Rickard and Richard Wilson (eds.) Shakespeare's Book: Essays on writing, reading and reception (Manchester U.P., 2007), and a chapter on strangers in early modern London in Tom Betteridge (ed.) Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2007).

Dr. Salkeld’s teaching and research interests include Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, early modern prosecutions and legal records, and textual scholarship. Dr. Salkeld gives regular conference papers at British universities, and has organized a Shakespeare Study Day at the University for local A Level and Access students. He is currently preparing books on courtesans, Shakespeare and micro-history.