Dr Rory Loughnane: Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Years

Sat 26 April, 11.30am - 12.30pm

AH3.31 lecture theatre, third floor, Augustine House, CT1 2YA

In this presentation, Rory Loughnane will consider the various theories advanced for Shakespeare’s so-called ‘lost years’, the period between 1585 when his and Anne’s twins Judith and Hamnet were baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon and 1592 when he was referred to derogatively in print as an ‘upstart crow’. Dr Loughnane will situate Shakespeare’s absence from the records in the context of broader conditions of loss in the 1580s and propose some alternative possibilities for where Shakespeare was during this time. The presentation offers a sneak preview of some new material from his forthcoming study ‘Shakespeare At Thirty’ (Princeton).

Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author or editor of nine books, including ‘Early Shakespeare, 1588-1594’ (Cambridge, 2020), ‘The Death Arts in Renaissance England’ (Cambridge, 2022), and ‘Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England’ (Cambridge, 2023). He is a General Editor of ‘The Oxford Marlowe’ edition, ‘The Revels Plays’ series, an Associate Editor of the ‘New Oxford Shakespeare’, and a Series Editor of Routledge’s ‘Studies in Early Modern Authorship’ and Cambridge’s ‘Shakespeare and Text’.

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