Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

Sonia Massai's research interests focus on: Shakespeare and early modern drama; editing and book history (with a focus on the transmission of Shakespeare and other playwrights from manuscript to print, through which Shakespeare and his contemporaries were represented to subsequent generations of readers); performance and theatre history (with a focus on the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage and the appropriations of Shakespeare across different media, languages and cultures). She was appointed General Editor of the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions, a new series of critical editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works in single-text editions (due out 2026-2031).

 

A new Arden 4 edition of Shakespeare’s Richard III, contracted for publication by Bloomsbury in 2024;  Shakespeare at War: A Material History, co-edited with A. Lidster, Cambridge University Press, 2023; Hamlet: State of Play, co-edited with Lucy Munro (London: Bloomsbury, 2021; Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance, Cambridge University Press, 2020; Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to Bowie, co-edited with S. Bennett, Bloomsbury, 2018; Shakespeare and Textual Studies, co-edited with M.J. Kidnie, Cambridge University Press, 2015; Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642, co-edited with T.L. Berger, Cambridge University Press, 2014; An Arden Early Modern Drama edition of John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A & C Black, 2011; Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor, Cambridge University Press, 2007; A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, Routledge, 2007; World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance, sole editor, Routledge, 2005; A Globe Quarto edition of Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hoxton, Nick Hern, 2002; A New Penguin edition of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, textual editor, Penguin, 2001.