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

  • Literary Allusion in Harry Potter Hogwarts' Library

    2017
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    Book
    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 Oaths: Grace, Swearing and Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy

    2016
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    Chapter
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    The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader
    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

  • Christ’s tears over Jerusalem and maternal cannibalism in early modern London

    2016
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    Chapter
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    Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 1550-1700
    What this book makes clear is that the names, images and narratives of the Bible's women are persistently difficult to evade.
    Literary Criticism

  • The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature

    2015
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    Book
    This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.
    Literary Criticism

  • The Siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in King John

    2015
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    Chapter
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    Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
    This volume freshly illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs, practices and issues, and their representation in Shakespeare's plays.
    Drama
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