Professor Derek Hughes

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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  • Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights

    Hughes, D. W. (ed.)
    Pickering and Chatto, London. 1864 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy

    Hughes, D. W.
    In: Blackwells' Companion to Restoration Drama (ed. Owen,S. J.), Oxford, pp. 195-210, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Human Sacrifice in Homer and Dryden's The Indian Emperour

    Hughes, D. W.
    In: Dryden and the World of Classicism (eds. Görtschacher,W.;Klein,H. M.), Tübingen, pp. 89-98, 9 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • 'Silent in th’inchanting circle”': women and language in Sir Patient Fancy

    Hughes, D.
    Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity. O'Donnell, M. A., Dhuicq, B., Leduc, G. (eds.). Harmattan, pp. 191-196, 6 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Restoration and Settlement: 1660 and 1688

    Hughes, D.
    The Cambridge Companion to Restoration Theatre. Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-141, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the Prostitute and the Playwright in Behn Criticism

    Hughes, D.
    Women's Writing, vol. 7, pp. 149-164
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • ‘Wie die Hans Heilings': Weber, Marschner, and Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus

    Hughes, D.
    Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 179-204
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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