MA, PhD
Emeritus Professor
- About
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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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Rape on the restoration stage
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 225-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.jstor.org/stable/41467978
Review of performance of Lindpaintner, Der Vampyr (Bad Aibling)
Opera, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 1336-1336Contributions to Journals: EditorialsThe Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
Cambridge University Press. 274 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra BehnChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersTheatre, Politics, and Morality
The Cambridge History of British Theatre, II, 1660 to 1895. Donohue, J. (ed.), pp. 90-107, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersTragedy and Tragicomedy
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Hughes, D., Todd, J. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 83-97, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAphra Behn
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRace, Gender and Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Essays in Criticism, vol. 52, pp. 1-22Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/52.1.1
The Theatre of Aphra Behn
Palgrave, Basingstoke. 240 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksEconomics and Human Sacrifice: Otway's Venice Preserv'd
In: Sederi 12, (ed. Palomero,L. F. R. et al.), ValladolidChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters