Professor Derek Hughes
Sixth Century Professor of English
MA, PhD
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272534 |
| E-mail: | d.w.hughes@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | Taylor B09 |
Biography
Derek Hughes (MA, PhD) holds degrees from the universities of Oxford and Liverpool and was formerly a Professor of English at the University of Warwick, coming to Aberdeen in 2004. He specializes in seventeenth and early eighteenth century 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, especially the influence of Latin and Greek literature upon later European culture. 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). He has edited Women Dramatists of the Eighteenth Century (2001) and Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century (2007).
Research Interests
Greek and Latin Literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, Comparative Literature, opera.
Teaching Responsibilities
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Restoration Drama, Representations of Race and Slavery, Literature 1640-1800
Selected Publications
Books
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Versions of Blackness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
(With Janet Todd) The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
The Theatre of Aphra Behn (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
General editor, Women Dramatists of the Eighteenth Century, 6 vols (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001)
English Drama 1660-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Dryden's Heroic Plays (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan; Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1981)
Articles
'Aphra Behn and the Uses of History', in The Female Wits, ed. by Pilar Cuder Dominguez, Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos, and Zenón Luis Martinez (Huelva, Spain: University of Huelva Press, 2006), pp. 171-190
'The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies' (forthcoming in Proceedings of the 2004 conference of the Italian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies)
'Thinking Ignobly of the Soul: Dryden's Heroic Plays,' in Literature, Readers and Dialogue: Essays by and in Reply to Douglas Jefferson (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2006) 75-87
'Rape on the Restoration Stage,' The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 46 (2005), 29‑40.
'Oroonoko: the Editor and the Marketplace,' in Aphra Behn (1640-1689): le modèle européen , ed. Mary Ann O´Donnell and Bernard Dhuicq (Paris: Bilingua, 2005), pp. 154-61
'Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre,' in The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn, ed. Derek Hughes and Janet Todd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 29‑45.
(with Janet Todd) 'Tragedy and Tragicomedy', in The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn, pp. 83‑97
'Theatre, Politics, and Morality,' in The Cambridge History of British Theatre, II, 1660 to 1895, ed. Joseph Donohue (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 90‑107
'Frances Boothby,' in Dictionary of National Biography
'Aphra Behn,' in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)
'Race, Gender, and Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko' Essays in Criticism, 52 (2002), 1-22.
'Economics and Human Sacrifice: Otway's Venice Preserv'd,' in Sederi 12, ed. Luisa-Fernanda Rodríguez Palomero et al. (Valladolid, 2001)
'Human Sacrifice in Homer and Dryden's The Indian Emperour,' in Dryden and the World of Classicism, ed. Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger M. Klein (Tübingen, 2001), pp. 89-98.
'Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy,' in Blackwells' Companion to Restoration Drama, ed. Susan J. Owen (Oxford, 2001), pp. 195-210
'Restoration and Settlement: 1660 and 1688,' in The Cambridge Companion to Restoration Drama, ed. Deborah Payne Fisk (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 127-41
'"Silent in th'inchanting circle": women and language in Sir Patient Fancy,' in Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity, ed. Mary Ann O'Donnell, Bernard Dhuicq, and Guyonne Leduc (Paris, 2000), pp. 191-96
'The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the Prostitute and the Playwright in Behn Criticism,' in Women's Writing, 7 (2000), 149-64.
'"Wie die Hans Heilings": Weber, Marschner, and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus,' Cambridge Opera Journal, 10 (1998), 179-204.
'Who Counts in Farquhar?,' Comparative Drama, 31 (1997), 7-27
'Body and Ritual in Farquhar,' Comparative Drama, 31 (1997), 414-35
'William Congreve,' in Reader's Guide to Literature in English, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996), pp. 157-58
'Restoration Tragedy,' in Reader's Guide to Literature in English, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996), pp. 790-91
'Thomas Otway,' in The International Dictionary of the Theatre, II (Chicago and London, 1994), 734-35
'Marriage A-la Mode,' in The International Dictionary of the Theatre, I (Chicago and London, 1992), 484-85
'Restoration Theatre,' in Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism, ed. Martin Coyle et al. (London, 1990), pp. 424-35
'The Dryden-Davenant Tempest and Some Seventeenth-Century Images of the Stranger,' in L'Étranger dans la littérature et la civilisation Britanniques, ed. Nadia-J. Rigaud (Aix-en-Provence, 1989), pp. 83-108
'Naming and Entitlement in Wycherley, Etherege, and Dryden,' Comparative Drama, 21 (1987), 259-89
'Vanbrugh and Cibber: Language, Place, and Social Order in The Relapse,' Comparative Drama, 21 (1987), 62-83
'Providential Justice and English Comedy 1660-1700: A Review of the External Evidence,' Modern Language Review, 81 (1986), 273‑92.
'Cibber and Vanbrugh: Language, Place, and Social Order in Love's Last Shift,' Comparative Drama, 20 (1986), 287-304
'Art and Life in All for Love,' Studies in Philology, 80 (1983), 84-107; reprinted in Cleopatra, ed. Harold Bloom (New York & Philadelphia, 1990), pp. 160-78
'Otway's The Orphan: An Interpretation,' Durham University Journal, 75 (1983), 45-54
'Dryden's Don Sebastian and the Literature of Heroism,' Yearbook of English Studies, 12 (1982), 72-90
'Dryden's The Indian Emperour and Georges de Scudéry's Alaric,' Review of English Studies, 33 (1982), 47-51
'The Unity of Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode,' Philological Quarterly, 61 (1982), 125-41
'The Plain-Dealer: A Reappraisal,' Modern Language Quarterly, 43 (1982), 315-36; excerpt reprinted in Literature Criticism from Fourteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred, ed James E. Person (Detroit, 1989-), 8, 429-31
'Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus and Seneca's Hercules Furens,' American Notes and Queries, 19 (1981), 103-04
'Play and Passion in The Man of Mode,' Comparative Drama, 15 (1981), 231-57
'Aphrodite katadyomene: Dryden's Cleopatra on the Cydnos,' Comparative Drama, 14 (1980), 35-45
'The Problem of Reality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' University of Toronto Quarterly, 40 (1971), 217-35
'A New Look at Venice Preserv'd,' Studies in English Literature, 11 (1971), 437-57
'The Significance of All for Love,' ELH, 37 (1970), 540-63