Jitka Štollová, a PhD student at Trinity College, publishes an essay entitled ‘Plotting Paratexts in Shirley’s The Politician‘ in a recent volume James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016).

As part of the AHRC Major Research Grant, this collection discusses one of the last great Stuart playwrights and authors of masques, James Shirley. His complete works will be published by Oxford University Press.

Jitka’s essay explores the phenomenon of extended character lists in early modern drama and Shirley’s work in particular.