Fran is a Teaching Bye-Fellow in English. She specialises in literature 1500-1700 with a specific interest in drama. She received her BA from Oxford, her MA from Queen Mary’s University of London, and her PhD from Cambridge. Fran’s research examined the dramatisation of commons complaint on the early modern stage and the ways in which the London professional theatre represented and exploited this phenomenon in a rapidly evolving theatrical and religious landscape. She enjoyed exploring the subversive discourse of popular plays with their reliance on improvisation, clowning, and their distinctively bottom-up perspective.
Her current focus is on early modern apprentice culture – she is thinking through texts performed for, about and by apprentices.
Fran teaches papers in Shakespeare, Renaissance and Practical Criticism across the English Tripos.
Publications:
Early Theatre 'Performative Print: A Printing Anomaly in The Coblers Prophesie' DOI: https://doi.org/10.12745/et.26.2.5267
