Dr Beatrice Groves

Dr Beatrice Groves
Research Fellow and Lecturer
beatrice.groves@ell.ox.ac.uk

Shakespeare, early modern drama, religion and early modern literature, psalms, sonnets, the destruction of Jerusalem in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature.

Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature

Awarded the Sixteenth Century Society Literature Prize in 2013 for “Those Sanctified Places where our Sauiours feete had trode’: Jerusalem in Early Modern English Travel Narratives” SCJ 43:3 (2012)

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Publications

  • Early modern tragedy and the Mystery plays: New material evidence

    2019
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    Chapter
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    Transformations of Tragedy

  • "The ears of profiting:” Listening to Falstaff’s Biblical Quotations

    2018
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    Chapter
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    Shakespeare and Quotation

  • England’s Jerusalem in Shakespeare’s Henriad

    2018
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    Chapter
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    The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England
    Bringing together the foremost international scholars in the field of Shakespeare and the Bible, these essays explore Shakespeare's engagement with scriptural interpretation in the tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances.
    Literary Criticism

  • Literary Allusion in Harry Potter

    2017
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    Book
    Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling’s series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter’s narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness provides insight into Rowling’s fictional world. Each chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the intersection between Harry Potter and a canonical literary work, such as the plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Homer, Ovid, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, Milton and Tennyson, and the novels of Austen, Hardy and Dickens. This approach aims to transform the reader’s understanding of Rowling’s literary achievement as well as to encourage the discovery of works with which they may be less familiar. The aim of this book is to delight Potter fans with a new perspective on their favourite books while harnessing that enthusiasm to increase their wider appreciation of literature.

  • The salvation of my oath': Contractual Relationships and the Operation of Grace in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy

    2016
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    The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader
    The Revengers Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.
    Literary Criticism
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