Dr. Jean Chothia
Research Interests
My research is concerned with dramatic language; with drama and performance;and with stage censorship. Published research includes work on English drama 1890-1940; French theatre in the 1890s; Naturalism and Realism on the stage; Eugene O’Neill; Orson Welles, New Woman plays; radio drama; silent cinema; Victorian / Edwardian Shakespeare; Sean O’Casey. I am currently writing on the staging of crowds and insurgency.
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Publications
"'The Triumph of the Supers': Hauptmann's 'The Weavers' as a Theatrical Event", Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 34.1, 2007
"Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks", A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005, Ed. Mary Luckhurst, Blackwell, 2006, 125-37
"Staging the Crowd: Gallery online and in touring exhibition", Stanford Crowds Project, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, 2005, 7 sections
"'Julius Caesar' in Interesting Times", Remaking Shakespeare: Performance across Media, Genres, Cultures, Ed. Pascale Aebischer, N Wheale and E Esche, Macmillan, 2003, 115-133
"Varying Authenticities: Poel, Tree and Late-Victorian Shakespeare", Victorian Shakespeare: Drama, Stage and Performance 1, Ed. Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole, Macmillan, 2003, 161-77
"'If this were played upon a stage now': Playing and the Audience in 'Twelfth Night'", Dialoguing on Genres, Ed. Ulf Lie and Anne Bonning, Nevus, 2001, 59-70
"'Broadcast Shakespeare': 'Recordings of Shakespeare'", The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, Oxford University Press, 2001
"The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays", Ed. Jean Chothia with introduction and notes, Oxford University Press, 1998, ix-xxxvi, 265-303
"Shaw and the Drama to 1930 (some 90 short reviews of the most significant works for "English Drama 1880-Present")", The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, Swets and Zeitlinger, 1998
"Trying to Write the Family Play: Autobiography and the Dramatic Imagination", The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 192-205