About
From January 2024, I hold a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nottingham. I also teach medieval and early modern literature at the University of Warwick.
I received my doctorate from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham in 2021. My PhD thesis, titled Thomas Middleton and the Adaptation of Shakespeare, 1616-1623 and supervised by John Jowett and Will Sharpe, drew upon recent advances (and controversies) in authorship studies and textual editing to consider the implications for present-day critical analyses of the identification of Thomas Middleton as an adapter of certain plays by William Shakespeare in the years following the original author’s death in 1616. This research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, through the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, and led to publications in the journals Exchanges (2020), Theatre Notebook (2021), Critical Survey (Forthcoming 2023).
I am currently working on expanding part of my PhD thesis into a monograph titled Thomas Middleton’s Theatre of War, which I hope to publish in 2025. Additionally, I am currently putting together an essay collection celebrating Middleton’s theatrical legacy, which I am co-editing with Anna L. Hegland and Sam Jermy; we hope to publish this volume in 2024, the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s final and greatest box office success, A Game at Chess (1624).
I am also part of the team of scholars working on the major textual project The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish (general editors Liza Blake, Shawn Moore, and Jacob Tootalian, and forthcoming both open-access and in print with Punctum Books), for which I am preparing a critical edition of Cavendish’s 1662 play The Unnatural Tragedy.
Furthermore, I currently serve as one of the contributing editors to the online database CADRE: Co-Authored Drama in Renaissance England (cadredb.net), under the stewardship of Rory Loughnane and Brett Greatley-Hirsch. Education
Shakespeare Institute, PhD Shakespeare Studies (2017-2021)
University of Birmingham, MA English Literature (2013-2015)
University of Winchester, BA (Hons) English (2010-2013) Publications
Research Articles and Book Contributions
William David Green, ‘Our Other Shakespeare? The Legacy and Controversies of The Oxford Middleton‘, in William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy (eds), The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 (Routledge, Forthcoming 2024).
William David Green, ‘Comedy and Plague in the Time of Covid: The BBC’s Upstart Crow: Lockdown Christmas 1603‘, in Sadegh Attari, David Christie, Hanan Fara, Niall Gallen, Richard Kendall, Liam J. L. Knight, and Ronan Love (eds), Pandemic Perspectives: Reflections on a Post-Covid World (Ubiquity Press, 2022), 38-44.
William David Green, ‘Murderous Distraction and the Downfall of the Tyrant in Thomas Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy‘, in Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy (ed.), Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage: Mad World, Mad Kings (Routledge, 2022), 101-117.
William David Green, ‘Thomas Middleton’s Absent Stanza: Musical Transplantation and the Textual Lacunae of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure‘, Theatre Notebook, 75:3 (2021), 158-172.
William David Green, ‘”Such violent hands”: The Theme of Cannibalism and the Implications of Authorship in the Folio Text of Titus Andronicus‘, Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 7:2 (2020), 182-199.
William David Green, ‘”Make Me a Christian”: Henry VIII, The Island Princess, and John Fletcher’s Anti-Catholicism’, The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, 7 (2015), 1-9.
Performance Reviews
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (directed by Blanche McIntyre for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 31 August 2022. Shakespeare (2023), Forthcoming.
Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, Titled La Tragedia del Vendicatore (directed by Declan Donnellan for Cheek by Jowl) at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, January 2021, and available via YouTube 21-27 May 2021. Shakespeare, 17:4 (2021), 503-506.
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (directed by Erica Whyman for the Royal Shakespeare Company), BBC Four, 25 April 2021. Shakespeare, 17:3 (2021), 370-374.
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (directed by Damian Cruden for Lunchbox Theatrical Productions) at Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 13 July 2019. Shakespeare, 16:1 (2020), 100-102.
Book Reviews
Domenico Lovascio, John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics (Manchester University Press/Revels Plays Companion Library, 2022). Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (2023), Forthcoming.
Mark Kaethler, Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021). Early Theatre, 25:1 (2022), 145-148.
Yasmin Arshad, Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England (Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2019). Theatre History Studies, 40 (2021), 253-255. Projects
Monograph: William David Green, Thomas Middleton’s Theatre of War (Forthcoming 2025).
Edited Collection: William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy (eds), The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 (Routledge, Forthcoming 2024).
Critical Edition: Margaret Cavendish, The Unnatural Tragedy, in Liza Blake, Shawn Moore, and Jacob Tootalian (gen. eds), The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish (Punctum Books, Forthcoming 2030).
Online: Various entries in Rory Loughnane and Brett Greatley-Hirsch (gen. eds), CADRE: Co-Authored Drama in Renaissance England (cadredb.net) Memberships
Royal Historical Society – Elected by the council as an Early Career Member in September 2021. Promoted to Associate Fellow in August 2022
Renaissance Society of America – Member since August 2021
Society for Renaissance Studies – Member since September 2020
Malone Society – Member since February 2018
British Shakespeare Association – Member since September 2017
