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Dr

David McInnis

Associate Professor In English And Theatre Studies
Culture and Communication
theatre history
lost plays
textual editing
early modern drama
Shakespeare
early modern travel
Marlowe
Dekker
arts & humanities
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David McInnis

 
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Shakespeare
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Projects

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Insights from the Invisible Drama: Shakespeare, Lost Plays and Theatre History, c.1585-1613.

1585-1613. Early modern English theatre has been understood almost exclusively in terms of plays that were printed or survived in manuscript..

2014 - 2017
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THE LOST PLAYS DATABASE

2012 - 2012
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Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England

David McInnis

Book  |  2021

Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

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Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader

David McInnis

Book  |  2020

Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader offers the definitive introduction to these plays and new perspectives on these seminal works.The b..

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Introduction: Coping with Loss

David McInnis

Book Chapter  |  2020

This Introduction draws attention to the extensive losses plaguing the study of early modern culture, beyond lost plays and the st..

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Old Fortunatus By Thomas Dekker

David McInnis

Book  |  2020

With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern jou..

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Thomas Dekker, If This Be Not a Good Play, The Devil Is In It

David McInnis

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Introduction: Tamburlaine

David McInnis

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Magic Mirrors, Moors, and Marriage: A lost English Play surviving in German

David McInnis

Book Chapter  |  2020

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, English plays were performed on the Continent and translated into German by..

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Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time

Book  |  2020  |  Early Theatre: a journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many signific..

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IAN DONALDSON (1935-2020)

RS White, Martin Butler, David McInnis

Journal article  |  2020  |  PARERGON

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Lost Documents, Absent Documents, Forged Documents

David McInnis, Roslyn L Knutson

Book Chapter  |  2019

To speak of a ‘lost play’ and an ‘extant play’ is ostensibly to posit a simple dichotomy in ontological status, but the reality is..

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Literary Studies
Other Culture and Society
Communication
Performing Arts
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Arts
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News

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Shakespeare and lost plays

David McInnis

Our understanding of Shakespeare benefits from appreciation of the plays that he was responding to and influencing in the repertories of th..

March 25, 2021
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Friends, Romans, Fake News

David McInnis

Soon after US President Donald Trump’s election, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway notoriously posited the existence of ‘alternative fac..

August 13, 2019
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The power of the pun

John Hajek, David McInnis

Depending on your sense of humour, puns are either the height of witty wordplay or cringe-worthy ‘Dad jokes’. Despite their divisive natur..

December 14, 2018
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Why Shakespeare would approve of the Pop-Up Globe

David McInnis

Would Shakespeare approve of the Pop-Up Globe in Melbourne? Of course he would. The first ‘pop-up Globe’, after all, was The Globe itself. ..

September 11, 2017
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To be or not to be ... original

David McInnis

We’ve all seen the internet memes about “Quoting Shakespeare” that tell you if you’ve ever said “there’s method in my madness” or “the bett..

August 24, 2016
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One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century

David McInnis

While the rest of the world is marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre is turning to Sh..

August 5, 2016
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Bardcore: Why Shakespeare went X-rated

David McInnis

Was Titus Andronicus the American Psycho of its day? Forget any ideas you might have of ‘gentle Shakespeare’ (as Ben Jonson once described ..

June 8, 2016
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Shakespeare: Wherefore art thou meaning?

David McInnis

Shakespeare’s words are everywhere – sometimes you just don’t realise it. Ben Affleck apparently believes that Batman is America’s Hamlet. ..

April 19, 2016
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We've found a Shakespeare folio but a swag of original plays are still missing

David McInnis

Almost 400 years ago, on 23 April 1616, William Shakespeare died. Perhaps the looming anniversary is what prompted a search through the lib..

April 7, 2016
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Why Shakespeare still matters

David McInnis

Shakespeare would be amused at how famous he is in 2016. Before anything else, he was a businessman: an actor, a shareholder in his company..

March 7, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence (2019)

University of Melbourne
2017

University Award for Excellence in Engagement – Public Value (2017)

University of Melbourne
2016

Max Crawford Medal (2016) (Australia's most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities)

The Australian Academy of the Humanities
2022

FRHISTS. - Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor In English And Theatre Studies

Culture and Communication

Treasurer And Council Member

Malone Society

Member

Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

Vice President

Marlowe Society of America (MSA)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Commerce

University of Melbourne

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