Professor Derek Hughes

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Professor Derek Hughes
Professor Derek Hughes
Professor Derek Hughes

MA, PhD

Emeritus Professor

About

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

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

    Hughes, D.
    Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 225-236
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Review of performance of Lindpaintner, Der Vampyr (Bad Aibling)

    Hughes, D. W.
    Opera, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 1336-1336
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Hughes, D. W., Todd, J.
    Cambridge University Press. 274 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre

    Hughes, D. W.
    The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Theatre, Politics, and Morality

    Hughes, D. W.
    The Cambridge History of British Theatre, II, 1660 to 1895. Donohue, J. (ed.), pp. 90-107, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Tragedy and Tragicomedy

    Todd, J., Hughes, D.
    The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Hughes, D., Todd, J. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 83-97, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Aphra Behn

    Hughes, D. W.
    Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Race, Gender and Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

    Hughes, D. W.
    Essays in Criticism, vol. 52, pp. 1-22
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Theatre of Aphra Behn

    Hughes, D. W.
    Palgrave, Basingstoke. 240 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Economics and Human Sacrifice: Otway's Venice Preserv'd

    Hughes, D. W.
    In: Sederi 12, (ed. Palomero,L. F. R. et al.), Valladolid
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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