Matthew Steggle

<strong>Shakespeare. </strong>Working on a biography of Shakespeare for Reaktion Books (forthcoming), leading to research discoveries including a possible new Shakespeare life-record, and an identification of a piece of writing belonging to Shakespeare’s sister: see <em>Shakespeare’s Sister and The Spiritual Testament</em> (Cambridge, forthcoming) and “The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane” (<em>Shakespeare, </em>2025). <p></p> <p><strong>Scholarly editing. </strong>Co-General-Editor, with Martin Butler, of <em>The Oxford Works of John Marston</em>, 4 vols (Oxford, forthcoming 2024), and co-I on the £715,000 AHRC grant obtained in 2015. Edited <em>Measure for Measure</em> for the <em>Norton Shakespeare, </em>3rd edn, gen. ed. Stephen Greenblatt (2015). Co-edited (with Eric Rasmussen) <em>Cynthia's Revels</em> for <em>The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson</em> (2012). Contributing editor to <em>Richard Brome Online </em>(2010) and to <em>The Oxford Works of Richard Brome</em> (forthcoming, 2023). <br /><br /></p> <p><strong>Literary criticism. </strong>Monographs include <em>Speed and Flight in Shakespeare</em> (2022); <em>Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England </em>(2015); <em>Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres</em> (2007); <em>Richard Brome</em> (2004); <em>Wars of the Theatres</em> (1998). Many scholarly articles and book chapters. Prizes include the Barbara D. Palmer Award (2021); the Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe (2015); the RSA-TCP Article Prize (2015); and <em>Early Theatre</em> Prizes (2011, 2017).<br /><br /></p> <p><strong>Lost plays.</strong> Co-editor, with Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, and Misha Teramura, of the <em>Lost Plays Database, </em><a href="http://www.lostplays.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.lostplays.org</a><em> </em>(2009-), a collaborative online project to catalogue the 1000+ lost plays of early modern England. Co-leader of seminars on the topic at SAA 2013, 2017.<em> </em>Co-editor, with David McInnis, of <em>Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England</em> (2014), "a major achievement" (<em>TLS</em>) which redefines the canon of early modern drama. Co-editor of <em>Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time </em>(2020).<em><br /><br /></em></p> <p><strong>Digital humanities.</strong> Former editor of <em>Early Modern Literary Studies, </em>one of the earliest and most durable scholarly ejournals; numerous digital humanities advisory board roles including <em>JISC Historical Texts</em>. Peer-reviewed contributions to digital humanities publications including the Blackwell<em> Companion to Digital Literary Studies</em>; <em>New Technologies and Renaissance Studies; Digital Studies/Le Champ Numerique</em>.</p> <p>Professor Steggle welcomes enquiries from students looking to work on any aspect ofearly modernliterature and drama,particularly in the area of Shakespeare; Jonson; Marlowe; other Renaissance drama, includinglost plays; Renaissance dramatic and non-dramatic culture more widely.</p> <p></p>

[05/01/2026] Investigating the Shakspaires of Trinity Lane - Matthew Steggle - The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Bioadaptation - Chapter in a book - Accepted/In press [04/01/2025] Imagined Wing: A Close Reading of Henry V, 3.0.1-24 - Matthew Steggle - Henry V: Critical Insights - Chapter in a book - Accepted/In press [15/12/2025] Marlowe the Flier - Matthew Steggle - Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Communities: Printers, Playwrights, Parallels - Chapter in a book - Submitted [26/12/2025] 1 Little Crown Street - Matthew Steggle - Shakespeare Quarterly - Article - Published [01/12/2025] Shakespeare’s forged will, 1790-1931 - Matthew Steggle - Borrowers and Lenders: the Journal of Shakespearean Appropriation - Article - Accepted/In press