Dr Gwilym Jones, BA MA (Swansea) DPhil (Sussex)
Lecturer

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2686

email: g.j.jones@qmul.ac.uk 

 

Gwilym came to Queen Mary after several years at Shakespeare’s Globe, where he was a researcher, dramaturg and lecturer. He can still be found there on occasions, but now prefers buildings with roofs. He has also taught at King’s College London and the University of Kent.

Gwilym’s main research interests are in early modern drama, and in particular the storms in Shakespeare’s plays. He is currently completing a monograph on this called Shakespeare’s Storms. He would be delighted to hear from anyone who can suggest a more imaginative title, or who shares this or any other research interest:

Research interests:

Research Interests

  •              Literature and the environment, especially staging nature in early modern Drama
  •              Renaissance actors, in particular the use of parts or cue-scripts.
  •              Early modern narratives of travel and exploration.
  •              Poetry and performance, particularly the relationship between Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and                      the developing theatrical culture.

Publications:

Chapters in Collections

‘Staging Storms in Shakespeare’s Theatres’ in Tiffany Stern and Farah Karim-Cooper (eds.) The Effects of Performance in the Theatres of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Arden Shakespeare, forthcoming).

‘Thus much show of fire’: storm and spectacle at the opening of the Globe.” in The Spectacular in and Around Shakespeare, ed. Pascale Drouet (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

Entries for ‘Julius Caesar’ and ‘Shakespeare’s Tragedies’ in The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to the Man and His Works (Ontario: Firefly, 2009).

Recent Articles and Reviews

Review of Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time, by John Astington, in Around the Globe 47, (Spring 2011) 40-2.

Review of Macbeth, dir. Lucy Bailey 2010, in Around the Globe 46, (Autumn 2010) 2-5.

Review of ‘Playing Shakespeare: Macbeth’ dir. Bill Buckhurst 2010 in Around the Globe 45, (Summer 2010) 2-5.

Review of Shakespeare, the Queen’s Men and the Elizabethan Performance of History, by Brian Walsh, and Shakespeare’s Opposites, by Andrew Gurr in Around the Globe 45, (Summer 2010)

Review of The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre ed. Richard Dutton in Around the Globe 44 (Spring 2010) 

‘Celebrating Shakespeare’s Sonnets’, SecEd 221 (September 3, 2009).

‘King Lear and the Problem of the Heath’ (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2008).

‘A common playhouse to waft company’: Middleton’s Globe. (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2007, available at www.globelink.org/research/thomasmiddleton).

‘The Storm in Othello’ (The Independent, 10th August 2007).