So at the moment I'm engaged in three
main research projects. One is the Arden
Shakespeare Performance Editions,
which I'm one of the general editors for
the series with Professor Michael Dobson,
with actor Simon Russell Beale, and I
have also edited Hamlet and Midsummer
Night's Dream for the series. So now I'm
really in the process of commissioning
other editions for that and thinking
about whether Sam Russell Beale and I
might try to tackle King Lear
which is really the big one, possibly the
most complex for for us to edit. So
that's one project. I'm writing a book
about As You Like It
for the Arden Language and Writing
Series.
So that's basically, I suppose, aimed at
both undergraduates and masters students
and I suppose even kind of advanced a
level students. It's a kind of guide to
As You Like It putting the language and
writing at the heart of it and setting
that in context. And alongside both of
these I've been working on a project
teaching Shakespeare to deaf children or
project on teaching Shakespeare to deaf
children and this has been the staff
research project for about a year and a
half as part of the collaboration with
the RSC, and along with RSC Education
we've been looking at producing
resources and that can be used by
teachers of deaf children in the
classroom - so working out what of the
sort of things that the RSC and other
kind of practitioners might do on a day
to day basis in a classroom and working
out what are those exercises that
might be suitable for deaf children,
what might not be suitable for deaf
children, what deaf children might need
in addition and what we can provide to
address some of the difficulties that
deaf children have with language and
with cognition.
