Fiona Ritchie
Shakespeare; Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre; gender and theatre history; women and regional theatre in Britain and Ireland, 1642-1832;听emotional contagion in theatre audiences.
Ph.D. (King鈥檚 College London)
B.A. Honours, M.A. (Durham)
Books
(Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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, ed. with Peter Sabor (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
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Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淛oanna Baillie: The Female Shakespeare鈥�, Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance, eds. Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 143-52.
鈥淪hakespeare and the Star Actress on the Eighteenth-Century Regional Stage鈥�, Journal of the Wooden O 12 (2013): 57-65.
鈥沦丑补办别蝉辫别补谤别鈥�, Samuel Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 343-51.
鈥淪hakespeare and the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stage鈥�, The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, eds. Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011) 274-91.
鈥淭he Impact of the Shakespeare Ladies Club on John Rich鈥檚 Repertory in the 1737-38 Theatrical Season: Shakespeare Versus Pantomime?鈥� 鈥楾he Stage鈥檚 Glory鈥�: John Rich (1692-1761), eds. Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011) 207-10.
鈥溾�楯ilting Jades鈥�?: Perceptions of Female Playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700鈥�, From Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737: From Leviathan to Licensing Act, ed. Catie Gill (Aldershot: Ashgate 2010) 131-44.
鈥淭he Artistic, Cultural, and Economic Power of the Actress in the Age of Garrick鈥�, Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories, eds. Christine Dymkowski and Christie Carson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 107-23.
鈥淲omen and Shakespeare in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century鈥�, Literature Compass 5.6 (September 2008), 1154-69.
鈥淭he Influence of the Female Audience on the Shakespeare Revival of 1736鈥�38: The Case of the Shakespeare Ladies Club鈥�, Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century, eds. Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 57-69.
鈥淓lizabeth Montagu: 鈥楽hakespear鈥檚 Poor Little Critick鈥�?鈥� Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005), 72-82.
Public Scholarship
Newsletter Articles and Blog Posts
听Centre for the History of Emotions E-Newsletter, December 2014.
听Histories of Emotion: From Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia (Centre for the History of Emotions blog), 13 November 2014.
鈥淓xploring the Theatre History of the Eighteenth Century: My Experience of Curating an Exhibition on Johnson and the Theatre,鈥� Johnsonian News Letter 59:1 (March 2008): 35-41.
Exhibitions
Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Life of Georgian Theatre, 1737-1784 (Dr Johnson鈥檚 House, London, April 鈥� September 2007).
- SSHRC Insight Grant (2014-2019)
- Early Career International Research fellowship, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2014)
- FQRSC programme pour l鈥櫭﹖ablissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs (2009-2012)
- Chawton House Library fellowship (2010)
- Lewis Walpole Library fellowship (2009)
- Huntington Library fellowships (2005 and 2009)
King鈥檚 College London (London, England)