Staff at the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London
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Dr Tamara Atkin, BA (Dublin), MSt (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford)
Lecturer

email: t.atkin@qmul.ac.uk

Research interests:

Tamara works mainly on late medieval and early renaissance English drama. Her interests lie in a number of related areas: the interactions between literature and religious reform in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; histories of the book and reading in the late medieval and early renaissance periods; and the periodization of medieval and early modern literature. She is currently completing a book, The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1450-1553, which explores the effects of religious change on the form and function of dramatic literature. Her next project will focus on drama and material culture and will offer a history of drama as dramatic literature in the period before the opening of commercial theatres.

Publications:

Articles and Chapters

  • ‘Printing in England, 1476-1550’ (with A. S. G. Edwards), A Companion to the Early English  Book, ed. by Vincent Gillespie and Sue Powell (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer,  Forthcoming in 2012)
  • ‘Reformation Drama’, The Literary Encyclopedia (forthcoming in 2011)
  • ‘Manuscript Print, and the Circulation of Dramatic Texts: A Reconsideration of the Manuscript of The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom’, English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 15 (2009), 152-65
  • ‘Playbooks and Printed Drama: A Reassessment of the Manuscript of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament’, Review of English Studies, 60 (2009), 294-205

Collections

  • On Play: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches, ed. with Sarah Baccianti, Medium Ævum Monographs, (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, forthcoming in 2012)

Reviews

  • ‘Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, ed. by Curtis Perry and John Watkins. Pp. xiii + 29. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009’, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, (forthcoming in 2011)
  • ‘Lotte Hellinga, William Caxton and Early Printing in England. Pp.224. London: British Library, 2010’, The Book Collector, (forthcoming in 2011)
  • ‘Nicole R. Rice, Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature. Pp. xviii + 247 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 73). Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008’, Notes and Queries  (2011), Advance Access <doi:10.1093/notesj/gir024>
  • ‘Clifford Davidson, Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain. Pp. xii +203 Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007’, Notes and Queries, 57 (2010), 581-82
  • ‘Daniel Wakelin. Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530. Pp. xii + 254. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007’, Notes and Queries, 56 (2009), 107-10
  • ‘Alexandra Gillespie. Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books 1473-1557. Pp. xiv + 281. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, and Marion Turner, Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fouteenth-Century London. Pp. x + 213 281 (Oxford English Monographs). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006', Notes and and Queries, 56 (2009), 109-11