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Dr Philip Butterworth

  • Position: Visiting Scholar
  • Areas of expertise: All aspects of medieval theatre with a particular focus on staging conventions, stage practice and performance, magic (legerdemain, sleight of hand), pyrotechnics.
  • Email: P.Butterworth@leeds.ac.uk

Profile

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Formerly Reader in Medieval Theatre and Dean for Research, University of Leeds. Taught in the Drama Department at Bretton Hall for many years.

Founder member of the Octagon Theatre, Bolton.

 

Selected Publications

Philip Butterworth, Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions: Analysis and Catalogue, Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies (Routledge, 2022)

Philip Butterworth, Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies, ed. by Peter Harrop, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Routledge, 2022)

Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington, eds., Medieval Theatre Performance: Actors, Dancers, Automata and their Audiences (D.S.Brewer, 2017)

Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington, eds., European Theatre Performance Practice, 1400-1580 (Ashgate, 2014)

Philip Butterworth, Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Joslin McKinney and Philip Butterworth, eds., The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Philip Butterworth, ed. The Narrator, The Expositor And The Prompter in European Medieval Theatre (Brepols, 2007)

Philip Butterworth, Magic on the Early English Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Winner of the David Bevington Award.

Philip Butterworth, Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre (Society For Theatre Research,1998)

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