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Associate Professor Huw Griffiths
Deputy Head of School (Education)
Discipline of English and Writing
Discipline of English and Writing
Phone
+61 2 9351 2065
Address
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of The Vere Gordon Childe Centre
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My research interests lie in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and culture, with a focus on Shakespearean drama. Specific interests include: constructions of the early modern nation; sovereignty; Restoration and eighteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists; contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays. Other interests include twentieth-century and contemporary British poetry, and contemporary gay fiction.
I teach widely in early modern literature, especially drama, and in twentieth-century British poetry; I would welcome research students with similar or related interests.
Shakespeare's Body Parts
In this project, I examine body parts in Shakespeare’s English history plays: how they are represented and, particularly, how they are implicated in the discourses and practices of sovereign power.
Love, Desire, and Friendship Between Men in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Adaptations of Shakespeare
In this project, I aim to make an intervention into histories of male-male relationships, variously construed as either homosocial or homoerotic, through analyzing Restoration and early eighteenth-century adaptations of earlier drama by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| The Abject and the Volatile: Investigating Bodies in Shakespeare’s Roman and History Plays | Mackenzie MCCOWAN |
| Moral Philosophy in the Texts of Shakespeare’s Tragedies | Amanda YAU |
Selected publications
Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
Shakespeare Hamlet: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Publications
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Books
- Griffiths, H. (2024). Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2020). Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [More Information]
Edited Books
- Griffiths, H. (2005). Shakespeare Hamlet: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. United States: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Griffiths, H. (2021). The Critical Backstory. In Liam E. Semler (Eds.), Coriolanus: A Critical Reader, (pp. 15-43). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2020). When Coriolanus was Hot: Reading for Homoeroticism Across Time. In Jennifer Drouin (Eds.), Shakespeare / Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality, (pp. 195-211). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2018). John Ford's Soliloquies: Solitude Interrupted. In A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin (Eds.), Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama, (pp. 180-194). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
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Journals
- Griffiths, H. (2024). "Strange" and "Stranger" in Philaster and Cymbeline: Influence, Response, and Redefinition. Studies in Philology, 121(4), 536-553. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2023). Review: All My Sons. The Arthur Miller Journal, 18(2), 217-222. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2022). Book review: 'Four Shakespearean Period Pieces' By Margreta de Grazia, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Shakespeare Studies, 50, 183-188. [More Information]
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Textual Creative Works
- Griffiths, H. (2022). From Othello to Otello. Online Programme Note / Feature for Opera Australia, Sydney, Australia: Opera Australia. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2016). Review: Disgraced turns West-meets-Islam divisions into striking melodrama. The Conversation, 3 May 2016, (pp. 1 - 4). Melbourne, Australia: The Conversation Media Group. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2015). Seventeen at Belvoir: A Brilliant Theatrical Event with a Happy, Hetero Ending. The Conversation, 13/08/2015, Melbourne, Australia: The Conversation Media Group. [More Information]
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Magazine / Newspaper Articles
- Griffiths, H. (2024). Love, loss and tears - but also laughter: Belvoir's compelling and skilful staging of Holding the Man. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2024). Sydney Theatre Company's Dracula: a virtuosic performance, sexy staging, and a queer rewriting. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2024). To AI or not to AI? How chatbots can help revive the university essay. Sydney Morning Herald. [More Information]
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Other
- Griffiths, H. (2021), A Midsummer Night's Dream. Why the play is much darker than is commonly supposed. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2021), Self Improvement: What's the point of Hamlet?. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2019), Self Improvement: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Radio: ABC Radio 'Drive'. [More Information]
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2024
- Griffiths, H. (2024). "Strange" and "Stranger" in Philaster and Cymbeline: Influence, Response, and Redefinition. Studies in Philology, 121(4), 536-553. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2024). Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2024). Love, loss and tears - but also laughter: Belvoir's compelling and skilful staging of Holding the Man. The Conversation. [More Information]
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2023
- Griffiths, H. (2023). I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2023). Review: All My Sons. The Arthur Miller Journal, 18(2), 217-222. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2023). Sydney Theatre Company's new The Importance of Being Earnest: fresh, funny and completely joyous. The Conversation. [More Information]
2022
- Griffiths, H. (2022). A production to satisfy Sydney's darkest imaginings: Sydney Theatre Company's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2022). Book review: 'Four Shakespearean Period Pieces' By Margreta de Grazia, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Shakespeare Studies, 50, 183-188. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2022). From Othello to Otello. Online Programme Note / Feature for Opera Australia, Sydney, Australia: Opera Australia. [More Information]
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2021
- Griffiths, H. (2021). 'Witchcraft of his wit': Teaching Shakespeare through metaphor. Metaphor, 2, 11-14. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2021), A Midsummer Night's Dream. Why the play is much darker than is commonly supposed. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2021). Belvoir's The Cherry Orchard is a laugh-out-loud tragedy for uncertain times. The Conversation. [More Information]
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2020
- Griffiths, H. (2020). Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2020). The Picture of Dorian Gray review: Eryn Jean Norvill stuns in all 26 roles. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2020). When Coriolanus was Hot: Reading for Homoeroticism Across Time. In Jennifer Drouin (Eds.), Shakespeare / Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality, (pp. 195-211). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. [More Information]
2019
- Griffiths, H. (2019), Self Improvement: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Radio: ABC Radio 'Drive'. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2019). Trans* Historical Drama: Bodily Congruence in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger's 'Love's Cure' and Taylor Mac's 'Hir'. Comparative Drama, 53(3&4), 201-222. [More Information]
2018
- Griffiths, H. (2018). A new take on An Enemy of the People fizzes with contemporary relevance. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2018). Blackie Blackie Brown is a ridiculously fun story of archaeology, race and revenge. The Conversation. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2018). John Ford's Soliloquies: Solitude Interrupted. In A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin (Eds.), Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama, (pp. 180-194). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
2017
- Griffiths, H. (2017). Black is the New White gives the comedy of manners an irreverent makeover. The Conversation. [More Information]
2016
- Griffiths, H. (2016). Muted All with Hawkes. Shakespeare Studies, 44, 112-124.
- Griffiths, H. (2016). Review: Disgraced turns West-meets-Islam divisions into striking melodrama. The Conversation, 3 May 2016, (pp. 1 - 4). Melbourne, Australia: The Conversation Media Group. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2016). Sovereignty, Synecdoche, and the Prosthetic Hand in King John. Exemplaria, 28(1), 21-43. [More Information]
2015
- Griffiths, H. (2015). Adapting Same-sex Friendship: Fletcher and Shakespeare's 'The Two Noble Kinsmen', and Davenant's 'The Rivals'. Shakespeare, 11(1), 20-29. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2015). Passports and the Locations of Sovereignty in The Reign of Edward III. English Studies, 96(7), 747-771. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2015). Seventeen at Belvoir: A Brilliant Theatrical Event with a Happy, Hetero Ending. The Conversation, 13/08/2015, Melbourne, Australia: The Conversation Media Group. [More Information]
2014
- Griffiths, H. (2014). Friendless Hamlet in Sydney. Shakespeare Newsletter, 64(1), (pp. 37 - 39). New Rochelle, NY, United States of America: Iona College, Department of English.
- Griffiths, H. (2014). Hotel Rooms and Bodily Fluids in Two Recent Productions of 'Measure for Measure', Or, Why Barnardine is Still Important. Shakespeare Bulletin: a journal of performance, criticism, and scholarship, 32(4), 559-583. [More Information]
2013
- Griffiths, H. (2013). "Shall I Never See a Lusty Man Again?": John Fletcher's Men, 1608-1715. In Terri Bourus, Gary Taylor (Eds.), The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes, (pp. 95-107). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2013). The History Cycle after Brecht: Sovereignty, Pathos and Violence in The War of the Roses (Sydney Theatre Company, 2009). Shakespeare, 9(1), 91-107. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2013). The Lecture as Theatre: Learning the boundaries of scepticism in The Winter's Tale. In Kate Flaherty, Penny Gay, L E Semler (Eds.), Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre: Australasian Perspectives, (pp. 87-96). Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
2012
- Griffiths, H. (2012). The Friend in Cardenio, Double Falsehood, and Don Quixote. In David Carnegie and Gary Taylor (Eds.), The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play, (pp. 239-255). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
2010
- Griffiths, H. (2010). 'O, I am ignorance itself in this!' Listening to Welsh in Shakespeare and Armin. In Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer (Eds.), Shakespeare and Wales: From Marches to the Assembly, (pp. 111-126). Farnham, UK: Ashgate. [More Information]
- Griffiths, H. (2010). Shakespeare, Pathos and Sovereign Violence: 3 Henry VI and King Lear. In Darryl Chalk and Laurie Johnson (Eds.), Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares, (pp. 91-111). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2009
- Griffiths, H. (2009). Wars without end. The War of the Roses [program], (pp. 1 - 2). Sydney, Australia: Sydney Theatre Company.
2007
- Griffiths, H. (2007). Letter-writing Lucrece: Shakespeare in the 1590s. In Jennifer Richards and Alison Thorne (Eds.), Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, (pp. 89-110). London, United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
- Griffiths, H. (2007). The Sonnet in Ruins: Time and the Nation in 1599. Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar, (6).
2005
- Griffiths, H. (2005). Shakespeare Hamlet: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. United States: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
2004
- Griffiths, H. (2004). The Geographies of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. English Literary Renaissance, 34(3), 339-358.
2003
- Griffiths, H. (2003). Britain in Ruins. Rethinking History, 7(1), 89-105. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2019
- Shakespearean Echoes in Scottish-Australian Literary Culture, Griffiths H, Stacey R, Nicholson J, Semler L, Heavey K, Maley W, Maslen R, Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards
2015
- Cultures of Modernities in the Global Medieval and Pre-Modern World, Amer S, Sirantoine H, Klein E, Anstey P, Gagne J, Borghesi F, Wooding J, Shaw J, Griffiths H, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/SSSHARC Collaborative Projects Support Scheme
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In the media
- 11/10/2024 - guest on ABC Radio National 'The Bookshelf': Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk
- 18/03/2024 - article from The Conversation republished on Hashtag Australia: Belvoir’s compelling and skilful staging of Holding the Man
- 16/03/2024 - quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald: Hundreds of uni students caught in ‘new wave’ cheating
- 16/03/2024 - quoted in the Daily Mail: Hundreds of students are using AI to cheat on their assignments - but universities have worked out how to catch them and it's simpler than you might think
- 02/02/2024 - guest on ABC Radio National 'The Bookshelf': New fiction from Francis Spufford, Hisham Matar and Kiley Reid
- 30/08/2023 - interviewed on 702 ABC Sydney 'Drive with Richard Glover' about 'King Lear'
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24/07/2023 - Yahoo!News republished The Conversation article:
I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer -
07/03/2023 - guest on ABC Radio National:
Podcast extra: Infidelity and compassion: changing morality in 19th century fiction -
25/11/2022 - featured as a reviewer on ABC RN: 'The Bookshelf':
Stolen bicycles, stolen love and stolen children: new books by Philip Salom, Celeste Ng and Arinze Ifeakandu -
27/07/2022 - interviewed on ABC Sydney Drive about Shakespeare and the use of animals in his plays:
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
