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Research interests
Elaine McGirr is a literary and theatre historian specialising in the long eighteenth century. Research interests include politics and/of performance, eighteenth-century Shakespeare, celebrity studies, and the intersections of gender and genre. Recent publications A Performance History of The Fair Penitent (CUP, forthcoming) Partial Histories: a Reappraisal of Colley Cibber (Palgrave, 2016), and articles on celebrity origin stories, fictional biographies, eigheenth-century Shakespeare, and the authority of actresses. She is currently working on the memoirs of Mary Ann Yates, the greatest actress you've never heard of.
Keywords
- Shakespeare and adaptation
- Gender and Sexuality
- historical performance practices
- dramaturgy
- eighteenth-century theatre
- Tragedy
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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8022 Bristol and Bath R&D Cluster, Academic Fellowship (AHRC) - Ellie Chadwick - UWE lead
18/05/20 → 30/04/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Celebrity Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates's biography
McGirr, E., 2019, (In preparation) Theatrical Anecdotes. Ladd, H. (ed.). University of Delaware PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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Diva, Director, Rival: Mary Ann Yates and/against Drury Lane, 1773-1778
McGirr, E., 2019, (In preparation) In: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Shooting Star: Theophilus Cibber’s Disastrous Self-Fashioning
McGirr, E., 2019, (In preparation) Making Stars: : Biography and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity. Nachumi, N. & Straub, K. (eds.). University of Delaware Press, (Performing Celebrity).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Activities
- 4 Participation in conference
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Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) 2018
Elaine M McGirr (Participant)
6 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Character to Caricature, 1660-1830
Elaine M McGirr (Participant)
3 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting (2017)
Elaine M McGirr (Participant)
30 Mar 2017 → 1 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference