About

I specialise in Shakespeare and early modern literature, with an emphasis on the conditions of theatrical and textual production. I am a Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, as part of a Leverhulme-funded project called Wartime Shakespeare: The Fashioning of Public Opinion through Performance. An introductory blog can be found here.

Education

2014 – 2017     PhD in English Literature, King’s College London

2013 – 2014     MA in English: Shakespeare in HistoryUCL

2010 – 2013     BA (Hons) English Literature, University of London 

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Monographs

    Amy Lidster, Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) [110,000 words]

    Amy Lidster, Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2023) [110,000 words]

    Amy Lidster, Authorships and Authority in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts, Studies in Early Modern Authorship (Routledge, forthcoming) [90,000 words]

     

    Edited Collections

    Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai (eds), Shakespeare at War: A Material History (Cambridge University Press, 2023) [100,000 words]

    Articles

    Amy Lidster, ‘At the Sign of the Angel: The influence of Andrew Wise on Shakespeare in print’, Shakespeare Survey 71 (2018), 242-54

    Amy Lidster, ‘Shakespeare and the implications of paratextual attribution’, Shakespeare Studies, 46 (2018), 150-55

    Amy Lidster, ‘Challenging monarchical legacies in Edward III and Henry V’, English: Journal of the English Association, 68:261 (2019), 126-42

    Amy Lidster, ‘“With much labour out of scattered papers”: The Caroline reprints of Thomas Heywood’s and 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody’, Renaissance Drama, 49:2 (2021), 205-28

    ‘“Not on his Picture, but his Booke”: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Practices of Collection’, Shakespeare (2023), 1-28

    Chapters

    Amy Lidster, ‘Publishing King Lear (1608) at the Sign of the Pied Bull’, in Old St Paul’s and Culture, ed. by Shanyn Altman and Jonathan Buckner, Early Modern Literature in History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 293-318

    Amy Lidster, ‘Making Sense of Error in Commercial Drama: The case of Edward III’, in Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to Typos and Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650), ed. by Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Anthony Grafton, and Paolo Sachet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp.418-31

    Amy Lidster, ‘Negotiating patronage: Nashe and his “toys for private Gentlemen”’, in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Nashe, ed. by Andrew Hadfield, Jennifer Richards, and Kate De Rycker (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

    Amy Lidster, ‘Preliminaries and Paratexts’, in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Authorship, ed. by Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

    Catherine Evans and Amy Lidster, ‘Resources’, Arden Research Handbook for Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, ed. by Michelle Dowd and Tom Rutter (London: Bloomsbury Arden, 2023), pp.327-38

    Critical Editions

    Henry VI: Part 1, introduction by Amy Lidster, ed. New Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

    The Reign of King Edward III, ed. by Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, Internet Shakespeare Editions

    [old-spelling edition, modern edition and textual introduction are peer-reviewed and published on ISE; full critical edition is forthcoming]

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    Feature talk about my monograph, Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare’, as part of ‘Conversing About Books’; Seminario Permanente di Studi Shakespeariani (SPSS), Sapienza Università di Roma (14 March 2023)

    ‘Authorizing the Folio’s “Shakespeare”’, part of the Plenary Panel ‘Constructing the First Folio’ with Emma Smith, Jitka Štollová, and Gary Taylor; Shakespeare Association of America’s annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota (29 March – 1 April 2023)

    Memberships

    ●          Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

    ●          Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    ●          Society for Renaissance Studies

    ●          Renaissance Society of America

    ●          London Shakespeare Centre

    ●          Shakespeare Association of America

    ●          British Shakespeare Association

     

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