University College Plymouth St Mark & St John


John Blakeley
Job Title:
Programme Leader, English Literature, Drama
Faculty/Department:
Faculty of Sport, Media and Creative Arts
Contact Number:
01752 636700 Ext: 3174
Email:
jblakeley@marjon.ac.uk
1998 MA: Shakespeare and Renaissance Culture with distinction (Newcastle)
2002 Ph.D English Literature (Newcastle)
Research Background:

Ph.D. title: ‘“This scribling generation”: The writing careers of Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene’.
Research Interests:

The professionalisation of literature in the late sixteenth century; Elizabethan prose fiction. My particular interests are in the writing careers of Shakespeare, Nashe, Marlowe, Greene and Lodge. I am also interested in the field of Shakespeare on Film, particularly the work of Derek Jarman
Teaching Areas:

Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson; Shakespeare on film; literary history of the novel from antiquity to the eighteenth century; literary representations of warfare; modern drama. I also teach an introductory module focusing on drama.
Publications:

John Blakeley, �Profiting from Prodigality: Robert Greene�s Repentance and the Material Condition of the Professional Writer� in Writing and Reform in Sixteenth Century England, edited by John Blakeley and Mike Pincombe (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2008).
John Blakeley, 'Shakespearean Relocations: The Final Scene of John Madden's Shakespeare in Love'. Shakespeare Bulletin 27 (2009). 249-59. John Blakeley. 'Exchanging "Words for Mony": The Parnassus Plays and Literary Remuneration'. In Medieval and Early Modern Authorship. Eds Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne. Tubingen: Narr, 2011. 161-74. Reviews for Notes & Queries

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