Additional Information / Informations supplémentaires

Office and Office Hour / Bureau et heure de réception

Research Interests / Recherches

Lukas Erne holds degrees from the universities of Lausanne, Geneva, and Oxford, where he undertook post-graduate studies on a prestigious Berrow Scholarship from 1994 to 1997. He has taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and has spent a year at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. on a research fellowship. He was a maître assistant at the University of Geneva before being appointed full professor at the University of Neuchâtel. He is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva since October 2005. His research interests include Shakespeare, English Renaissance drama and poetry, editorial theory and practice, book history, and questions of authorship.

For further information, consult: http://home.adm.unige.ch/~erne/

For information about the Faculty's Groupe d'études sur les XVIe et XVIIe siècles, see:  http://www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/Recherche/getude/gexvi.html

For information about the Department's Doctoral Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, click here.

Supervision

Lukas Erne has recently supervised or currently supervises five PhD theses on a variety of subjects, 'Shakespeare Alterations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-82: Politics, Rape, and Authorship' (Emma Depledge, completed), 'Shakespeare on the German Wanderbühne in the Seventeenth Century: Romio und Julieta and Der Bestrafte Brudermord' (Kareen Seidler), 'The Materiality of Early Modern Writing' (Susanna Gebhardt), 'Satirizing Love in Shakespeare's "Lyric Phase"' (John McGee), and 'The Pragmatics of Interruption in Early Modern English Drama' (Oliver Morgan). He is willing to assess proposals from prospective PhD students working on early modern English literature. For further information, click here. He has also supervised a number of MA theses in early modern English literature, mostly Shakespeare. Select titles of recent theses are: 'The Stranger in Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Othello, and The Tempest'; 'The Play-As-Dream Metaphor in Shakespeare'; 'Negotiating Power in Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-126'; 'Shakespeare Adaptations: From Source to Page to Stage to Film'; 'Bad and Good Women in Bad and Good Quartos: Female Characters in Shakespeare's Multiple-Text Tragedies'; 'Dramatizing History in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy'; and 'Representations of Persia in Early Modern England'; and 'Words and Witches: Language and Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic and Religious Texts'. For further information about the Geneva MA, click here .

Publications

For access to the publications in the institutional repository, see here.

Books and Monographs / Livres et monographies

Shakespeare and the Book Trade (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (London: Continuum, 2008).

Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; paperback edition 2007). Named among the ‘Books of the Year’ by the Times Literary Supplement.

Beyond the ‘Spanish Tragedy’: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001; paperback edition 2008).

(editor, with Guillemette Bolens) Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, Swiss Papers in Language and Literature, 25 (Tübinger: Gunter Narr, 2011).

(editor) The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, The Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition 2010).

(editor, with M. J. Kidnie) Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; paperback edition 2007).

(editor, with Guillemette Bolens) The Limits of Textuality, Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 13 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2000).

Selected Articles and Chapters / Sélection d'articles et de chapitres

'Editorial Emendation and the Opening of A Midsummer Night's Dream', in Shakespeare Up Close:  Reading Early Modern Texts, ed. Russ McDonald, Nicholas D Nace, and Travis D Williams (London:  Arden, 2012). 

'Introduction', in Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, Swiss Papers in Language and Literature, 25 (Tübinger: Gunter Narr, 2011), 11-27.

'Thomas Kyd', in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011), 572-76.

'On Reading King Lear, in Textual Itineraries: Books and Texts in their Contexts, Natalie Collé-Bak and David Ten Eyck, eds. (Nancy: Nancy University Press, 2011), 101-18.

'Mediating Evil: The Editorial and Critical Reception of Shakespeare's Villains', in After Satan: Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth, Kirsten Stirling and Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), 68-84.

'The History of the Book in Switzerland', in The Oxford Companion to the Book, Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and Henry Woudhuysen, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

‘“Our Other Shakespeare”? Thomas Middleton and the Canon’, Modern Philology, 107:3 (February 2010), 493-50.

‘Shakespeare’s Popularity in Print’, Shakespeare Survey, 62 (2009), 12-29.

'Revisiting Shakespearean Authorship', Shakespeare Studies, 36 (2008), 26-36.

'Romeo and Juliet on Stage and Page: The Character of the Nurse in the First (1597) and Second (1599) Quartos', in Mediality / Intermediality, Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 21, Andreas Fischer, Martin Heusser, and Andreas Jucker, eds. (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2008), 45-57.

'Afterword', in Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception, Richard Wilson, Richard Meek, and Jane Rickard, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008), 255-65.

'Shakespeare for Readers', in Alternative Shakespeares 3, Diane Henderson, ed. (London: Routledge, 2007), 78-94.

'Shakespeare et Ben Jonson face à la publication de leurs ouvres', in Le Parnasse des auteurs dramatiques, Claude Bourqui and Georges Forestier, eds. (Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2007), 199-212.

'Double Time in Othello', Around the Globe, 36 (2007), 2-3.

‘Print and Manuscript’, in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry, Patrick Cheney, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007), 54-71.

'Thomas Kyd's Cornelia', in Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, eds. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 125 (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006), 207-14, rpt. from Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy'.

‘Biography, Mythography and Criticism: The Life and Works of Christopher Marlowe’, Modern Philology, 103 (2005), 28-50. Winner of The Calvin & Rose G. Hoffman Prize and of the Roma Gill Award.

‘Lamentable Tragedy or Black Comedy? Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Adaptation of Titus Andronicus’, in World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance, Sonia Massai, ed. (London: Routledge, 2005), 88-94.

‘Textuality’, in Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader, Ewan Fernie, Mark Burnett, Clare McManus and Ramona Wray, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 25-32.

‘Words in Space: The Reproduction of Texts and the Semiotics of the Page’, in The Space of English, David Spurr and Cornelia Tschichold, eds., Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 13 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2005), 99-118.

‘“Throughly ransackt”: Elizabethan Novella Collections and Henry Wotton’s Courtlie Controuersie of Cupid’s Cautels (1578)’, Cahiers Elizabéthains, 64 (October 2003), 1-12.

‘Thomas Kyd’s Christian Tragedy’, in Renaissance Papers 2001, Thomas Hester, ed. (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002), 17-34.

‘Shakespeare and the Publication of His Plays’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 53 (2002), 1-20 (reviewed in The Shakespeare Newsletter, 52:3 [Fall 2002], 91).

‘Shakespeare, Auteur, 1593-1609’, in Du Spectateur au lecteur: Imprimer la scène aux XVIe et XVIIe siècle, Larry F. Norman, Philippe Desan and Richard Strier, eds. (Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002), 185-204.

‘Donne and Christ’s Spouse’, Essays in Criticism, 51 (2001), 208-29, rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 90, ed. Tom Schoenberg (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2003).

‘“Enter the Ghost of Andrea”: Recovering Thomas Kyd’s Two-Part Play’, English Literary Renaissance, 30 (2000), 339-72 (reviewed in The Year’s Work in English Studies, 81 (2002), p. 453).

‘Eighteenth-Century Swiss Peasant Meets Bard: Ulrich Bräker’s A Few Words about William Shakespeare’s Plays (1780)’, Theatre Research International, 25.3 (2000), 255-65.

‘“Popish Tricks” and “a Ruinous Monastery”: Titus Andronicus and the Question of Shakespeare’s Catholicism’, in The Limits of Textuality, Lukas Erne and Guillemette Bolens, eds., Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 13 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2000), 135-55.

‘Shakespeare's “ever-fixed mark”: Theological Implications in Sonnet 116’, English Studies, 81 (August 2000), 293-304.

‘“The Two Hours’ Traffic of Our Stage”: Performance Criticism and the Length of Performance of Shakespeare’s Plays’, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 135 (1999), 66-76 (reviewed in Hamlet Studies, 23 [2001], 131-32).

‘Biography and Mythography: Rereading Chettle’s Alleged Apology to Shakespeare’, English Studies, 79 (1998), 430-40 (reviewed in The Shakespeare Newsletter, 48 [1998], 82).

Short Articles and Reviews / Articles courts et comptes rendus

Gabriel Egan, The Struggle for Shakespeare’s Text: Twentieth-Century Editorial Theory and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) in: Around the Globe, 48 (summer 2011), 43.

Lene B. Petersen, Shakespeare’s Errant Texts: Textual Form and Linguistic Style in Shakesperean ‘Bad’ Quartos and Co-authored Plays (Cambridge, 2010) in: The Times Literary Supplement, February 18, 2011, 7.

Tiffany Stern, Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2009) in: Around the Globe, 46 (2010), 46-47.

Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, eds., Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge, 2009), in: The Times Literary Supplement, June 4 2010, 11.

Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds., Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (Oxford 2007), and Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds. Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works (Oxford 2007), in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 146 (2010), 225-28.

Margaret Jane Kidnie, Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation (London, 2009), in: English Studies, 91 (2010), 225-26.

Sonia Massai, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (Cambridge, 2007), Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare in Parts (Oxford, 2007), and John Jowett, Shakespeare and Text (Oxford, 2007), in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 145 (2009), 249-54.

Anthony B. Dawson and Gretchen E. Minton, eds., Timon of Athens, The Arden Shakespeare (London, 2008) in: Around the Globe, 41 (2008), 51-52.

Andrew Murphy, A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text (Oxford, 2007) in: Around the Globe (Summer 2008), 46.

Marta Straznicky (ed.), The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England (Amherst and Boston, 2006), in: Shakespeare Quarterly, 58 (2007), 546-48.

Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor (eds.), Hamlet, The Arden Shakespeare (London, 2006); Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor (eds.), Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 (London, 2006); and Norbert Greiner and Wolfgang G. Müller (eds.), Hamlet (Tübingen, 2005), in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 143 (2007), 233-37.

Thomas Kullmann, William Shakespeare: Eine Einführung (Berlin, 2005), in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, 158 (2006), 423-25.

Ton Hoenselaars (ed.), Shakespeare and the Language of Translation, The Arden Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Language (London, 2004); Rui Carvalho Homem and Ton Hoenselaars (eds.), Translating Shakespeare for the Twenty-First Century, Studies in Literature (Amsterdam, 2004); and A. Luis Pujante and Ton Hoenselaars (eds.), Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe (Newark, 2003), in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 142 (2006), 245-49.

Julie Hankey (ed.), Othello, 2nd ed., Shakespeare in Production (Cambridge, 2005) and Scott McMillin (ed.), The First Quarto of Othello, The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos (Cambridge, 2005), in Around the Globe, 32 (2006), 38-39.

Anne Lancashire, London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558 (Cambridge, 2002), in Shakespeare Studies, 33 (2005), 285-88.

Brian Woolland (ed.), Jonsonians: Living Traditions (Aldershot, 2003), in: Modern Language Review, 100 (2005), 480-81.

David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (eds.), The Book History Reader (London, 2003), in: Anglia, 122 (2004), 526-27.

Linda Anderson and Janis Lull (eds.), ‘A Certain Text’: Close Reading and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas Clayton (Newark, 2002), in: Shakespeare Quarterly, 55 (2004), 335-37.

Joseph Loewenstein, The Author’s Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright (Chicago, 2002), and Joseph Loewenstein, Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship (Cambridge, 2002), in: English Studies, 85 (2004), 274-76.

Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (Cambridge, 2003), in: Around the Globe, 27 (2004), 42.

‘For the Stage and the Page’, Around the Globe, 26 (2004), 36-37.

Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan (eds.), In Arden: Editing Shakespeare (London, 2003), in: Cahiers Elisabéthains, 63 (April 2003), 127-31.

Douglas A. Brooks, From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000), in: Modern Language Review, 97 (2002), 385-86.

Ina Schabert, ed., Shakespeare-Handbuch (Stuttgart, 2000), in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, 154 (2002), 152-55.

The First Quarto of King Henry V, ed. Andrew Gurr, The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos (Cambridge, 2000), in: Cahiers Elisabéthains, 59 (April 2001), 141-44.

Various entries for The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble, 6th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, with anonymous, The First Part of Jeronimo, ed. Emma Smith (Harmondsworth, 1998), in: English Studies, 81 (2000), 157-58.

King Edward III, ed. Giorgio Melchiori, New Cambridge Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1998), and Shakespeare's ‘Edward III’: An Early Play Restored to the Canon, ed. Eric Sams (New Haven and London, 1996), in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, 151 (1999), 426-28.

‘W. E. Burton’s Dramatic Works of Thomas Kyd of 1848’, Notes & Queries, 242 (n.s. 44) (1997), 485-87.