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Dr Sean McEvoy
Fellow

Dr Sean McEvoy

Official Fellow; Tutor; Fellow in English

Contact
spm33@cam.ac.uk⁠

I go back a long way with the college. My undergraduate DoS was at New Hall and I was an Education Fellow here in 2002. For me it’s always been a friendly, lively place with a real focus on the student experience

Degrees & Honours

MA Cambridge (Christ’s); MA Sussex; PhD Royal Holloway.
Fellow of the English Association

Awards & Prizes

My book on theatre riots, Theatrical Unrest, was shortlisted for the 2017 Theatre Book Prize.

Research Interests

I work on Shakespeare and early modern drama, and on twentieth-century English and Irish theatre. I've a particular interest in tragedy. I teach the 1500-1700 paper to our first years, and the Tragedy paper to the final year students.

Biography

I’m from west London. Most of my career has been spent teaching in a sixth-form college in Brighton, where I was a faculty head and then ran the International Baccalaureate programme. I’ve also taught at Sussex and on the Royal Holloway Shakespeare MA programme.

Authored work

  • I’ve written a number of books for students, including:

    Hamlet: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2005)

     

    Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist (Edinburgh UP, 2007)

     

    Shakespeare: The Basics (fourth edition, Routledge, 2024)

     

    Tragedy: The Basics (Routledge, 2017)

     

    Theatrical Unrest: Ten Riots in the History of the Stage 1601-2004m Routledge 2016


    Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth Palgrave 2021.

Subject
English