Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies MA | Postgraduate Taught

UCAS code	1234
Duration	1 year full time 2 years part time
Entry year	September 2025
Campus	Streatham Campus
Discipline	English
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Typical offer View full entry requirements	2:2 Honours degree
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Code	Module	Credits
EASM023	Dissertation	60
EASM109	Bodies Politic: Cultural and Sexual Politics in England, 1603-1679 [See note a above]	30
EASM191	Environments of Early Modern Drama [See note a above]	30
EASM192	Global Voices: Shakespeare and the Early Modern World [See note a above]	30

Code	Module	Credits
MA ELS Shakespeare and Renaissance options 2024-5
EASM150	Empire, Decadence and Modernity: Literature 1870-1910	30
EASM151	Modernism and Material Culture	30
EASM157	The Literature of Cold War America	30
EASM169	Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK	30
EASM180	Crossing Medieval Boundaries	30
EASM184	World Literature and Postcolonial Studies	30
EASM152	Criticism and Theory: Critical and Literary Theory in a Global Context	30
EASM167	World Cinema / World Literature	30
EASM171	Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television	30
EASM174	Writing Women in the English Middle Ages	30
EASM177	The Global Publishing Marketplace: Creating Audiences	30

Professor Pascale Aebischer

Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies

Pascale Aebischer's research focuses on theatre and digital live performance during and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her academic background is rooted in the history of the performance of early modern drama (including Shakespeare), with an emphasis on 1580s-1700 and 1980s-present. She has a particular interest in bodies and performance technologies (from candlelight through social media to 'live' theatre broadcast and digital performance). These interests are reflected in her teaching, which focuses on early modern - Restoration theatrical cultures and performance practices, Shakespeare, and present-day performance on stages and screens.'

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Dr Niall Allsopp

Lecturer in Early Modern Literature

Niall Allsopp specializes in literature of the seventeenth century, and particularly the English Revolution. He says, 'I am interested in how literature negotiates ideas of sovereignty, political obligations, public rituals, and social cohesion in a period when such concepts were radically tested. My current research explores how writers fashion political and communal allegiance in the mid-seventeenth century. My other ongoing project asks how ideas of social belonging were forged through the experience of public ceremony in the period. '

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Professor Chloe Preedy

Associate Professor in Early Modern Drama

Chloe Preedy’s work focuses on the ways in which early modern drama engaged with and responded to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century developments in the history of ideas and environmental attitudes. She says, ‘I am particularly interested in theatrical performance, early modern environmentalism, and questions of belief. My current and ongoing research interests include an investigation into the significance of weather for early modern theatrical experience, the role of olfactory effects in early modern performance, and the influence of spatially-centred and networked approaches within modern reception histories of early modern theatre.’

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Professor Philip Schwyzer

Professor of English Literature

Philip Schwyzer’s research includes Shakespeare, Spenser, early modern English and Welsh literature, death and memory, national identities, and archaeology and antiquarianism. He says, ‘My research interests tend to cluster around borders and boundaries - between nations, between periods, and between disciplines. Much of my work has focused on cultural and literary relations between the nations of Britain, particularly England and Wales. I’ve also sought in various ways to bridge the gap between ‘late medieval' and ‘early modern'. I find myself increasingly interested in the intersection of literary and material cultures, especially as vehicles for the expression and preservation of cultural memory.’

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Dr Naya Tsentourou

Lecturer in English

Naya Tsentourou is author of Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer (Routledge, 2017), and with Lucia Nigri, editor of Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2017). She says ‘I am an early modernist with research interests in the body, the history of emotions, affect theory, and representations of breath in 16th and 17th century literature.’

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