Professor Eugene Giddens' research activity

Books and Editions

The Roaring Girl and other City Comedies, ed. with an introduction by James Knowles and notes and glossary by Eugene Giddens, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

William Shakespeare, King John, New Penguin Shakespeare, ed. Robert Smallwood, revised with a new introduction by Eugene Giddens (London: Penguin, 2005).

William Shakespeare, Pericles, New Penguin Shakespeare, ed. Eugene Giddens (London: Penguin, 2008).

How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011).

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, gen. eds. David Bevington, Martin Butler, Ian Donaldson, assoc. eds. Eugene Giddens and Karen Britland, 7 print volumes and electronic edition (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012).

Collections 16 (The Malone Society), ed. Eugene Giddens (Manchester: Malone Society Publications, 2011).

James Shirley, Hyde Park (Revels), ed. Eugene Giddens (Manchester: Manchester UP, forthcoming 2013).

William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, in The Norton Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York and London: Norton, contracted for delivery 2012).

The Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley, gen. eds. Eugene Giddens, Teresa Grant, and Barbara Ravelhofer, 10 vols. (Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2015).

A Handbook of Jonson Studies, ed. Eugene Giddens (Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2013).

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History, co-authored 85,000-word book (New York and Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming 2013).

Articles and chapters

'Calianax's Challenge in The Maid's Tragedy', Notes and Queries 242 (1997), 523.

'The Wounds of Civil War and Antony and Cleopatra', Notes and Queries 243 (1998), 346-7.

'The Genesis of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus', Literature and Theology 12 (1998), 341-9. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism 103 (2005).

'The Challenge to Duel in Jonson's The Magnetic Lady, III.vi', Notes and Queries 246 (2001), 314-15.

'Honourable Men: Militancy and Masculinity in Julius Caesar', Renaissance Forum 5.2 (2001), 1-34. Read online. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism 105 (2007).

'The Final Stages of Printing Ben Jonson's Works, 1640-41', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97 (2003), 57-68.

'Pericles, the Afterlife', in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays, ed. Catherine M. S. Alexander (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

'Editions and Editors', in Jonson in Context, ed. Julie Sanders (Cambridge: CUP, 2009)

'Masculinity and Barbarism in Titus Andronicus', Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1 (in press for 2011). Read online.

'Digital Editions and Digital Delays: Electronic Editions of Renaissance Literature', Book 2.0 (2011), 21-30.

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

'On Preparing Digital Editions of Early Modern Literature', The Book Publishing Histories Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, 23 May 2011

'The Death of Digital Editions', Beyond the Facsimile, Sheffield Hallam University, 13 December 2010.

'The Print and Electronic Editions of The Complete Works of James Shirley', Works in Progress, De Montfort University, 5 July 2010.

'The Electronic Edition of The Complete Shirley', Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Venice, 8 April 2010.

'Gender and Politics in late Jonson and Shirley', Thursday Seminar Paper, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 4 March 2010.

'The Complete Shirley', John Ford Symposium, Institute of Historical Research, 12 June 2009.

Grants

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, research on Alice in Japan, £1000, 31 March-14 April 2012 - Co-investigator

AHRC Block Grant Partnerships: Capacity Building Route, 1 October 2011-30 September 2014, approximately £200,000 in studentships - Principal Investigator

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Fellowship 2010-2011, $3,000

British Academy Smaller Research Grant, The Shakespearean Play Text, 1 July 2009-1 October 2009, £1427.14

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, research on The Complete Works of James Shirley, 11 July 2009-25 July 2009, £1,500

U. S. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 2008, $6,000

English Subject Centre, support for Anglia Literary Society, 2007-8, £250

AHRC Research Grant, The Complete Works of James Shirley, 1 April 2008-31 March 2013, £832,000 plus PhD studentship: Anglia Ruskin share, £344,000

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliography Fellowship, 2007-2008, for editorial work on James Shirley, $4,000

British Academy Larger Research Grant, The Complete Works of James Shirley - Preparatory Research, March 2005-Sept. 2005, £14,042




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