Shakespeare expert wins coveted prize for ‘impressive’ first book Published on: 19 August 2020 A Â鶹´«Ã½ expert on Shakespeare has won the coveted Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020. Significant contribution The Book Award is awarded every two years to an early career scholar for a first book that has made a significant contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Dr Emma Whipday, pictured right, a lecturer in Renaissance Literature in Â鶹´«Ã½’s School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, won the award for her book Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home. In announcing the award winners, the judges said: “Emma Whipday’s impressive Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies is a project of reclamation, in that she is seeking to bring to attention the overlooked genre of domestic tragedy, and expansion, in that she wants already established canonical texts to be brought into that classification. In her readings, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear reappear as domestic tragedies, and she gives them new potency and charge by her exposure of these plays’ deep engagement with the shibboleths and secrets of early modern domesticity.” This year’s competition saw fifteen books submitted from across the world, which the judges say was “an exceptionally strong haul that reflects the continuing vitality of Shakespeare studies”. Dr Whipday was jointly awarded the prize alongside Oliver Morgan from the University of Cambridge. Dr Whipday said: “I am absolutely delighted to be the joint winner of this year's Shakespeare's Globe Book Award, especially considering how much I admire the other books on the shortlist. I'm a huge fan of the books that have won in previous years, and feel very lucky to be in such prestigious company.” As well as sharing the cash prize of £3,000, the winners will also share a platform for the prize-winners’ talks, which this year will be presented online on 18 September 2020. Press release adapted with thanks to Shakespeare’s Globe Share: Latest News Volunteers help turn Whitley Bay beach into maths experiment Members of the public joined mathematicians from Â鶹´«Ã½ to create what organisers believe is the largest aperiodic tiling ever attempted on Whitley Bay beach. published on: 15 June 2026 Student leader drives misogyny law change A Â鶹´«Ã½ student leader has helped change the law after creating a petition to make misogyny a hate crime, which gathered over 114,000 signatures, prompting action in Parliament. published on: 12 June 2026 Freemen of Â鶹´«Ã½ see construction of new Castle Leazes The Freemen of Â鶹´«Ã½ and other key stakeholders have become an indelible part of new student accommodation at Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Castle Leazes. published on: 12 June 2026 Facts and figures
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