MA, PhD
Emeritus Professor
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- Email Address
- d.w.hughes@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Derek Hughes (MA, PhD) has written extensively on seventeenth and early eighteenth century English literature, with special interests in drama, women's writing, and representations of America. He also works on the relationship between literature and music, and on comparative literature, particularly on the relationship between English, classical, and German texts. His monographs include English Drama,1660-1700 (1996), The Theatre of Aphra Behn (2001), and Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera (2007), which studies the literary treatment of human sacrifice from Homer to the present day. He has edited Women Dramatists of the Eighteenth Century (2001) and Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century (2007). He is currently working on a study of Wagner’s reading and has published several articles in The Wagner Journal.
- Research
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Research Overview
Greek and Latin Literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, Comparative Literature, opera (especially Wagner).
- Publications
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Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights
Pickering and Chatto, London. 1864 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksHeroic Drama and Tragicomedy
In: Blackwells' Companion to Restoration Drama (ed. Owen,S. J.), Oxford, pp. 195-210, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHuman Sacrifice in Homer and Dryden's The Indian Emperour
In: Dryden and the World of Classicism (eds. Görtschacher,W.;Klein,H. M.), Tübingen, pp. 89-98, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'Silent in th’inchanting circle”': women and language in Sir Patient Fancy
Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity. O'Donnell, M. A., Dhuicq, B., Leduc, G. (eds.). Harmattan, pp. 191-196, 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRestoration and Settlement: 1660 and 1688
The Cambridge Companion to Restoration Theatre. Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-141, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Masked Woman Revealed; or, the Prostitute and the Playwright in Behn Criticism
Women's Writing, vol. 7, pp. 149-164Contributions to Journals: Articles‘Wie die Hans Heilings': Weber, Marschner, and Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus
Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 179-204Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700004924