Dr Clare Wright
She/Her
About
Clare’s research focuses on late-medieval and Tudor drama and performance, and in particular questions of space, place and embodiment. She has published in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (2012), Medieval English Theatre (2012), Performing Environments (2014), Shakespeare Bulletin (2017) and has a forthcoming essay in The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition (2018). Her current project questions the validity of the ‘illusion-reality principle’ (the idea that all drama principally works on the relationship between a play world and a real world) for pre-modern British drama. The project seeks to recover pre-modern paradigms of play, resituating early drama within the broader performance culture and how this might change the way we think of, analyse, historicise and perform plays from the late-medieval and early modern period. Clare is also Chair of the Medieval English Theatre society and is the founder of the Early English Drama & Performance Network.