Drama and Performance

The Drama & Performance seminar series aims to explore questions of performance within theatrical contexts both contemporary and historical, with a special emphasis on ideas of the dramatic and performance in practice.

EASTER TERM 2026

Please join us for the first meeting of the Drama and Performance Seminar which will be taking place on the 30th April 2026 at 17h00 in GR05 (Ground Floor) at the Faculty of English.

Professor Tiffany Stern will be presenting material from her new book Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre (CUP, 2025).

TIFFANY STERN is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. She has previously held professorships at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Oxford (University College). Her work combines literary criticism, theatre history and book history from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Her publications include Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey, 2007), Documents of Performance in Early Modern England(2009), alongside numerous articles and chapters exploring theatrical and editorial concerns of the early modern period. Most recently, she has published Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre (2025) and has co-edited the North Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century (2024). She has edited the anonymous King Leir, Sheridan's The Rivals,Farquhar's Recruiting Officer, Brome’s A Jovial Crew, Wycherly’s The Country Wife, amongst others, and is the general editor of New Mermaids and the flagship Shakespeare series Arden Shakespeare 4. All are warmly welcome; no registration required. Please direct any questions or queries to Kemal Sultanov (ks928).