Dr. Lucy Munro

Biography

Lucy Munro is a leading scholar in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, serving as the Co-Director of the Shakespeare Centre at King's College London. She has a considerable academic background, having completed her BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Manchester, followed by her MA and PhD at King's College London. Munro has worked at the University of Reading and Keele University, where she taught various English and film media programs before returning to King's College London in 2013. Her research interests are wide-ranging, focusing particularly on the theatre history, textual editing, genre form, adaptation, gender, childhood, and ageing studies. Munro has published three notable books, including "Children of the Queen's Revels", focusing on children’s playing companies in early modern London, as well as studies on archaic styles in early modern literature and the stage lives of Shakespeare's plays. She has also edited a number of early modern plays and has contributed to several funded research projects examining representations of age and gender in theatre. Munro actively engages in public scholarship and has collaborated with theatre organizations including Shakespeare's Globe. As an educator, she teaches modules on Shakespeare, Jacobean drama, and early modern literary culture at both undergraduate and MA levels, supervising PhD candidates engaged in research related to early modern drama and representation.

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