Gillian Woods shortlisted for Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award
Gillian Woods, Lecturer in Renaissance Theatre and Drama, has had her book Shakespeare’s Unreformed Fictions shortlisted for this year’s Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award.
Gillian Woods, Lecturer in Renaissance Theatre and Drama, has had her book Shakespeare’s Unreformed Fictions shortlisted for this year’s Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award.
Shakespeare’s Unreformed Fictions looks at why Catholicism continued to have an imaginative hold over Shakespearean drama, even though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice.
Gillian’s book was one of three shortlisted for the prize, which is awarded to 'a first monograph that has made an important contribution to the understanding of Shakespeare'.
The shortlist was selected by a panel of academics comprising: Patrick Spottiswoode (chair) and Dr Farah Karim-Cooper of Globe Education; Professor David Lindley from the University of Leeds; Professor Gordon McMullan of King’s College London; the University of Oxford’s Professor Laurie Maguire; and Dr Abigail Rokison, who works at the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute and was the inaugural Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award winner in 2012.
In August 2014, Gillian was announced as one of the joint winners of the Book Award along with David B. Goldstein for Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England.
The two winning authors delivered a public lecture on their work in the newly opened Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in October 2014. They were presented with their award at the event by world-renowned Shakespeare scholar, Professor Stanley Wells.
'I am delighted that two scholars have been invited to speak about their books in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Sam always wanted the Globe to be the place where scholars could share their knowledge and expertise with the general public. This Award is one way in which we are supporting and celebrating new scholars and research.' - Patrick Spottiswoode, Director of Globe Education and Chair of the Judging Panel.
Gillian Woods teaches on the BA English and MA Renaissance Studies degree programmes.