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Professor William Leahy joined MIC as Dean of Arts on 1 September 2021. Prof. Leahy joined MIC from Brunel University London where he was Vice Provost for Students, Staff and Civic Engagement. Previously he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs and Civic Engagement) and Head of the School of Arts (now College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences).
Prof. Leahy’s early research specialised in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Processions. His particular interests have been the role and representation of the common people in Elizabethan and Shakespearean literature. He has published widely on both Shakespeare and early modern spectacle, culminating in a book entitled Elizabethan Triumphal Processions.
Prof. Leahy’s research has also focused on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, most notably in his edition of collected essays Shakespeare and his Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question.
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My Shakespeare: the authorship controversy : experts examine the arguments for Bacon, Neville, Oxford, Marlowe, Mary Sidney, Shakspere, and Shakespeare
Leahy, W., 2018, Brighton: Edward Everett Root Publishers. 241 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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'the dreamscape of nostalgia': Shakespearean Biography: Too Much Information (but not about Shakespeare)
Leahy, W., 2016, In: Journal of Early Modern Studies. 5, p. 31-52 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Many Lives of William Shakespeare Biography, Authorship and Collaboration
Leahy, W. (Editor) & Pugliatti, P., 2016, In: Journal of Early Modern Studies. 5, p. 11-427 416 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"Exit Pursued by a Zombie": The Vampires we Desire, the Shakespeare we Reject
Leahy, W., 2014, In: Studies in popular Culture. 36, 2, p. 29-44 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘The Passage Of Our Most Drad Soveraigne Lady Quene Elyzabeth Through The Citie Of London’
Leahy, W., 2014, John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I.: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources. Oxford University Press, Vol. 1. p. 112-142 30 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Review: Kai Wiegandt. Crowd and Rumour in Shakespeare. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xi+ 216 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978--1--4094--3219--7.
Leahy, W., 2013, Renaissance Quarterly, 66, 2, p. 755-756 2 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
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Women's Clubs: Dispersing Shakespeare Across America
Leahy, W. & Whetstone, T., 2011, In: Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. p. 193-204 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London)
Leahy, W., 1 Jan 2010, Shakespeare and His Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question. Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 150-157 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Introduction: The Life of the Author
Leahy, W., 1 Jan 2010, Shakespeare and His Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Mark Rylance (Former Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London)
Leahy, W., 1 Jan 2010, Shakespeare and His Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question. Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 142-151 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Good Deeds Day 2020 another success with Brunel University London and Uxbridge College
16/03/20
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Shakespeare’s birthday: ignore the avalanche of adulation – he was a chancer of the first order
23/04/15
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I receive hate mail for questioning the authorship of Shakespeare's plays
23/04/13
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