Dr Felicity Brown

Felicity Brown works on the construction of (and crises in) authority in early modern literature and culture. Since completing her DPhil at Jesus College, Oxford, she has been a Lecturer in English, 1550-1760, at Christ Church. She has also held short-term fellowships at the Ashmolean Museum and the Huntington Library. She has written about archery competitions, Inns of Court translations and tragedies, George Gascoigne’s poetics, and the semi-dramatic operas of John Dryden. Her article about Elizabethan Accession Day Tournaments, ‘Playing Arthur: Making the Elizabethan Mariner’, won the Derek Brewer Essay Prize. At the Institute of English Studies, she is researching miniature Shakespearean books.