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Email

mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in English and Theatre Studies
School of Culture and Communication
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Masters (Coursework)
University of Toronto
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-7011-8045

Prof David McInnis

Professor in English and Theatre Studies
School of Culture and Communication

78 Scholarly works
2 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    In states unborn and accents yet unknown: Shakespeare and Australian Indigenous performance
    DOI: 10.5040/9781350344174.ch-001
  • 2025

    Journal article

    From the Editors
    DOI: 10.1093/sq/quaf021
  • 2021

    Book

    Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108915250
  • 2020

    Book

    Old Fortunatus By Thomas Dekker
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Introduction: Coping with Loss
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36867-8_1
  • 2016

    Journal article

    Samuel Phelps’s Antony and Cleopatra in Australia: An Unrecorded Promptbook for Performance in Melbourne, 1856.
    DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2016.1174729
  • 2014

    Journal article

    'Orozes, King of Albania': An unpublished plot for a stage romance, by John Locke
    DOI: 10.1093/res/hgt075
David McInnis

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2024
Barbara D. Palmer Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Archives Research Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
2023
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
2023
Woodward Medal for Research Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Melbourne
2022
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS.)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    General editors' preface
    DOI: 10.7765/9781526149473.00004
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Simon Smith and Emma Whipday, eds. Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
    DOI: 10.12745/et.27.1.5791
  • 2024

    Journal article

    ‘Ed: Agberowe’, Seventeenth-Century Collector of Restoration Playbooks
    DOI: 10.1093/library/fpae021
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Race in repertory
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192843050.013.11
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Act break 1: Lost, but once played: Enlarging the performative possibilities of Shakespeare's theatre
    DOI: 10.5040/9781350304468
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’
    DOI: 10.1080/0268117X.2024.2317199
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    ALL EARLY MODERN DRAMA IS VIRTUAL TO US
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009392761.001
  • 2023

    Journal article

    The First Folio at 400: Editing Roundtable
    DOI: 10.1093/sq/quad040

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