I‘m a Doctoral Assistant in the SNSF-funded research project “Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England” at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). As part of the project, I am working on a PhD thesis provisionally entitled “Dramaturgies of Judgment in Sixteenth-Century England” in which I argue that representations of judgment (in its various forms) in Tudor drama and the dramaturgy of these plays can elucidate each other and, subsequently, lead us to a more nuanced understanding of the complexities and the (intellectual and technical) sophistication of Tudor drama.
My research focuses on (early) Tudor drama, theory of drama, and the history of performance and I’m also interested in questions of methodology and the practices of literary studies: I’ve published on “intention” in the context of sixteenth-century translation theory, I discuss the role “performance” plays as an interpretive category in genre theory in a forthcoming book chapter on (so-called) closet drama, and explore how “plot” functions in Shakespeare source study in an article forthcoming in Shakespeare Survey.
patrick.durdel@unil.ch
Patrick Durdel 