About
I recently retired from teaching the history of theatre and drama for Cambridge University, Institute of Continuing Education. I gained a teaching Diploma in Speech and Drama from the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama in1976; a BEd (Hons Cantab) in 1982, as a mature student, followed by a PhD in 1987. I contributed to Aphra Behn Studies (CUP 1996) acted as an adviser and provided six entries for the Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Literature (2003) and wrote on English Pantomime for Audience Participation (Praeger 2003) I have published in Theatre Notebook, Speech and Drama, the on-line Journal Participations and the on-line Literary Encyclopedia published by the University of East Anglia.
I am particularly interested in the scenography of the English seventeenth century theatre and have published Aphra Behn Stages the Social Scene in the Restoration Theatre (Cambria Press 2008), Sir William Davenant, the Court Masque, and the English Seventeenth Century Scenic Stage c1605-c1700 (Cambria Press 2008), and am currently working on Illusions of Splendour: from the Medici Intermedi to Inigo Jones’s Masques.


