Dr Eoin Price

• "I am not what I am”: Transness in English Literary Discourse, 1350-1650 (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Roberta Magnani

• A stage play exploring attitudes and prejudices towards ex-offenders. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof David Britton

• Women, Empowerment and the Natural World in Medieval Literature 1200-1500. (awarded 2023)

  MA

  Other supervisor: Dr Roberta Magnani

  Other supervisor: Dr Roberta Magnani

• EN-119 The Stage Play World

  The Stage Play World is an introductory module which combines an overview of performance history -- from classical Greek theatre to the present-day stage presentations -- with the development of reading and analytical skills. The module teaches students how to read and understand a stage script and then moves on to a consideration of how to analyse what is being read. The course also teaches students how to argue persuasively from that analysis. The module has been designed to emphasise the continuous development of drama, together with its links to social and historical events and to movements in other forms of art and literature. There are a number of set texts, with additional extracts that will be considered in lectures.

• EN-242 Contentious Shakespeare

  Shakespeare is often figured as a universal writer who tells us something essential about the human condition; he has been imagined as both a national poet and the world¿s dramatist. But can Shakespeare really be universal? This module invites students to rethink many of the standard assumptions about Shakespeare. The writer Ben Jonson described as the `sweet swan of Avon¿ was also responsible for plays of horrifying violence and his drama reflects, in unsettling ways, on issues of gender, race, and class. Students will explore five controversial Shakespeare plays: The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Tempest. Lectures and seminars introduce the plays in their disturbing complexity: Shakespeare emerges as a deeply equivocal presence in literary and theatrical history. Taking into account the important work of feminist and postcolonial criticism, this module addresses both the radical potential and the frequently conservative application of Shakespeare¿s plays.

• EN-3031 Dissertation - English Literature

  The Dissertation is an optional, two-semester, 40-credit module designed to develop high-level academic skills and intellectual independence in the students. A first-semester skills-building programme will include: research skills, summary skills, bibliographic skills, ability to synthesise succinctly, planning and organisational skills, correct presentation of a thesis and bibliography, presentational skills and public speaking. Students conduct research on a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of the English literature staff. The topic will be devised to fall within staff research and teaching specialisms, broadly defined. Students attend group sessions on research skills in Semesters 1 and 2, and have individual meetings with supervisors in Semester 2.

• EN-3058 Beyond Shakespeare

  Shakespeare is now the best known, most read, and most performed dramatist of the seventeenth century but he was not necessarily the best known, most read, or most performed playwright of his time. This module looks beyond Shakespeare at five important plays written by his contemporaries, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and John Ford. The plays analysed on this module all enter into some form of dialogue with Shakespeare's plays. Some of them, for example, were written for the King's Men, the company Shakespeare helped found; while some were written for rival companies and some explicitly respond to, and seek to reshape, Shakespeare's work. Daring to broach subjects that Shakespeare was less willing to touch, the plays also offer distinct challenges and opportunities. A Ben Jonson play, for example, simply doesn't work in the same way as a Shakespeare play. This module will introduce students to some of the most inventive and outrageous plays of the early modern stage. Students will learn how best to approach the unique challenges posed by the theatre of Shakespeare's contemporaries, focusing in particular on their status as theatrical scripts. The module introduces students to the repertory system of early modern England and its different playing spaces and theatrical cultures. It will also invite students to consider the life the plays have on the stage today, drawing on the evidence of twenty-first century performances.

• EN-M31 Dissertation

  Individual project devised and defined in discussion between supervisor and student.

• EN-M41 Research Practice in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

  Supervised project on research methodology in practice. Students build a detailed bibliographical plan for their MA dissertation project.

• EN-M79 After Macbeth: The Scottish Play on Screen

  This module begins in the seventeenth century and ends in the present day as it traces the screen afterlife of Shakespeare¿s Scottish play. By turns familiar and strange, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most commonly performed plays yet it takes a horrible delight in the weird and the supernatural. Accordingly, the module invites students to consider the enduring strangeness of Macbeth as it has captured the imagination of actors, and directors, in a variety of cultures and contexts, across the last century. Students will be trained to analyse film, to examine the process of filmic adaptation, and to reconsider what they think they know about one of Shakespeare¿s most famous plays.

• EN-M89 Publishing: Cultures and Contexts

  This team-taught module introduces students to different cultures and contexts of the publishing industry and its history. Students will gain both practical and intellectual skills across a range of topics taught by staff from English Literature and Creative Writing. The module begins with focused seminars on book history and print culture, and then moves on to workshops in which students will gain a familiarity with industry terminology and the mechanisms of the book trade. Students will be able to choose from different methods of assessment that develop academic or industry-focused skills.

• MSW301 Testunau Trawsgyfryngol

  Dyma fodiwl cyfoes sydd yn archwilio y berthynas rhwng y gwahanol gyfryngau a¿i gilydd. Trwy gyfrwng astudiaeth o destunau penodol bydd y modiwl yn dadansoddi¿r ffyrdd y mae ffilm, theatr, teledu, y byd cyhoeddi a thechnolegau newydd yn benthyg ac yn rhannu testunau. Archwilir hefyd sut y mae¿r cyfryngau gwahanol yn ymateb i sialensau a phosibiliadau cynhyrchu trawslwyfan.

With Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare’s Globe) I am currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Shakespeare emerging from the British Shakespeare Association Conference on Shakespeare, Race, and Nation, which I organized at Swansea in July 2019. Both the conference and the special issue aim to help continue the study of Shakespeare and race in the UK academy.

In recognition of my research, Swansea University named me one of seven inaugural Florence Mockeridge fellows in 2018.

I currently serve as the Programme Director for the MA in English Literature and the MA Welsh Writing in English. I am very happy for any prospective students to contact me to discuss either of our programmes.

I would be delighted to discuss research supervision with any student interested in any aspect of early modern theatre.

I am passionate about public engagement. I am particularly interested in promoting knowledge about the early modern theatre world beyond Shakespeare but I also enjoy talking about Shakespeare’s plays and their cultural reception. My recent public engagement activities include a Shakespeare Family Fun Day as part of the 2018 Being Human Festival, a talk about Shakespeare and assassination as part of a 2019 Being Human Festival panel, and a video introduction to Shakespeare’s Cymbeline as part of the Shakespeare2020 Project.

• Philip Massinger and the Dearth of the Author

  2020

  Oxford Renaissance Online Seminar, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

• The Life of a Play

  2019

  The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

• A Fashion for Fletcher

  2018

  London Shakespeare Seminar

• War Without Shakespeare

  2018

  International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon

• Theatre History and the Logic of Context

  2017

  Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England, Queen’s College. University of Oxford

• The Quiet Life of Jacobean Drama

  2016

  The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

• Beginning Beaumont

  2016

  London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London