Dr Chloe Preedy

Dr Chloe Preedy

<ckp21@cam.ac.uk>

Biographical Information:

 I completed my PhD on religious conflict in the works of Christopher Marlowe at the University of York, before joining the Faculty of English at Cambridge. I am a teaching member of the Faculty, specialising in Shakespeare and early modern drama, and a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

 

Research Interests:

 I work mainly on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, with a focus on early modern drama. My research to date has looked at the Elizabethan drama of the 1580s and 1590s, and specifically at the plays (and poems) of Christopher Marlowe: my book, Marlowe's Literary Scepticism: Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic, explores the debt that Marlowe's literary discourse of religious scepticism owes to the confessional polemic of the later sixteenth century. My broader research interests include the ways in which early modern drama engaged with and participated in religious controversy, the theatrical representation of space, early modern propaganda networks, Elizabethan responses to Machiavelli, theatre and performance history, and textual editing. As part of a new collaborative research project, 'Renaissance Reincarnations', I am currently investigating the cultural afterlives of various Renaissance dramatists and the reception history of their work from the seventeenth century to the present day. I am also researching a new book project on the theatrical representation of early modern warfare, which will focus on the use and figuring of weapons in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatres.

 

Areas of Graduate Supervision:

 N/A

 

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Selected Publications