Shakespeare Programme
The Shakespeare Programme was set up to explore the significance of connections between Lancashire as a centre of early modern religious dissent, the importance of touring theatre and household performance and, under its previous director, possible links with Shakespeare’s ‘lost years’. Its new research activities include work on manuscripts and early printed books and illustrated early editions of Shakespeare in the Hesketh and Cartmel Collections held in the University Library, and a project on Shakespearean Surfaces. The Programme coordinates a Research M.A. in Literature Drama and Society, Shakespeare to Behn, and postgraduates pursuing MPhil and PhD degree research in early modern studies, as well enhanced opportunities for study for undergraduates, including workshops, theatre visits and a reading group.
Visit the Shakespeare Programme website
Early Quakers in the Northwest
… is primarily intended for Quakers worldwide; scholars; and those who live in and/or love the North West of England and would like to delve into one important aspect of its history and topography. It should provide ideas (and maps) for those who would like to follow Fox’s journeys and, in the later stages of the site, those of his companions and disciples, the ‘Valiant Sixty’.
Visit the Quaker project website
CREME
CREME is an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis is generating unique methods and approaches to the study of early modern language and culture. Pioneering and field-changing research projects are already under way. The aim of CREME is to transform scholarly understanding of early modern England by applying the methods of corpus linguistics to the complete corpus of texts made available via Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and other historical corpora.
Visit the CREME website
Performance, Ceremony and Ritual
Professors Findlay and Twycross and Dr Oakley-Brown are members of this interdisciplinary University-based research grouping which brings together colleagues from History, Literary Studies, Musicology, Theatre Studies, Management and Organisation Studies, and Criminology to explore how ritual and ceremonial practices are re-placed across time, space, and across the boundaries of cognate human sciences.