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• DPhil: The Reputation and Influence of George Herbert to 1715
  Oxford University, 1984
• BA: English Language and Literature
  University of Birmingham, 1976

My research concentrates on three main areas of early modern English literature: (1) devotional writing, particularly lyric poetry; (2) Shakespeare, particularly the tragicomedies; (3) early women’s writing, particularly poetry and autobiography.

My work onÌýdevotional writingÌýfocuses on the religious poetry and prose written in English in the seventeenth century, a time of intense dilemmas over devotional identity. I have published many articles on the work of writers such as John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, George Herbert, An Collins, Henry Vaughan, ‘Eliza’ and their contemporaries. My annotated edition of The English Poems of George Herbert was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 (paperback, 2011) and has been highly acclaimed by fellow-scholars and general readers alike. More recently I co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2017) with my Bangor colleague, Andrew Hiscock. MyÌýShakespeareÌýstudies centre on his tragicomedies: that is, his so-called ‘problem plays’ and the romances. These plays are particularly fascinating for their alternative solutions to the challenges of tragedy and comedy, and for their female roles. I have published several essays in the field of gender and genre in Shakespeare, and my Arden 3 edition ofÌýAll’s Well That Ends Well, co-edited with Suzanne Gossett, is due out in 2018. I also have a long-standing interest in early modernÌýwomen’s writing, and one of my first books was the co-edited anthology of seventeenth-century women’s autobiographical writings,ÌýHer Own LifeÌý(1989), which is still in print and seen as a pioneering work in the field. I have also publishedÌýWomen and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700Ìý(1996) and numerous articles on seventeenth-century women authors, raising questions of identity, voice, wit and religion. I contributed the chapter on the early modern period to theÌýCambridge History of Feminist Literary Criticism.

It will be clear that these three main areas of interest overlap considerably, since the women’s writing on which I work includes many devotional texts, and my focus on Shakespeare highlights issues of gender. They are also linked by certain recurring issues: the definition of genres (lyric, tragicomedy, autobiographical writing); the nature of early modern communities (held together by religious belief, literary allegiances, gender, or family), and the prevailing question of identity in the early modern period. Since none of this research can be carried out on literary works in isolation, the relationships between literature, history, religion, music and the visual arts form the vital interdisciplinary context of my work.Ìý This inter-relation of literature (by women and men), music, devotional experience and political contexts is central to my monograph,Ìý1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern EnglandÌý(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

2018

• Published
  Gossett, S. (Editor) & Wilcox, H. (Editor), 29 Nov 2018, 3rd ed. Bloomsbury. 440 p. (The Arden Shakespeare)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

2017

• Published
  Hiscock, A. (Editor) & Wilcox, H. (Editor), 29 Jun 2017, Oxford University Press. 848 p. (Oxford Handbooks)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

2016

• Published
  Johnson, A. W. (Editor), Sell, R. D. (Editor) & Wilcox, H. E. (Editor), 28 Oct 2016, 2016 ed. Ashgate Publishing. 450 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E. (Editor), 19 May 2016, 2016 ed. Cambridge University Press. 174 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., 28 Oct 2016, Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres: Stage and Audience. Johnson, A. W., Sell, R. D. & Wilcox, H. (eds.). 2016 ed. Ashgate Publishing
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2015

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Killeen, K. (Editor), Smith, H. (Editor) & Willie, R. (Editor), 27 Aug 2015, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England: c. 1530-1700. Oxford University Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2014

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., 1 Jan 2014, Wiley-Blackwell.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Olsen, J. E. (Editor) & Veenstra, J. R. (Editor), 1 Jan 2014, Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Brill, p. 195-212
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Howard, W. S. (Editor), 1 Jun 2014, An Collins and the Historical Imagination. Ashgate Publishing, p. 71-85
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2011

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Hodgkins, C. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies. 2011 ed. University of Delaware Press, p. 243-256
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Bollmann, A. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, A Place of Their Own: Women Writers and their Social Environments (1450-1700). 2011 ed. Peter Lang, p. 87-106
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Sterrett, J. (Editor) & Thomas, P. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, Sacred Text - Sacred Space: Architectural: Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales. 2011 ed. Brill, p. 141-162
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Corns, T. N. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell. 2011 ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 183-199
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Kinney, A. F. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean England: Sources and Documents of the English Renaissance. 2011 ed. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 587-594
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E. & Streete, A. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings: 1570-1625. 2011 ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 48-67
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Hiscock, A. W. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, Women Beware Women: a critical guide.. 2011 ed. Continuum, p. 121-138
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Cousins, A. D. (Editor) & Howarth, P. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. 2011 ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 145-165
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2010

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Hodgkins, C. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, George Herbert's Pastoral: new essays on the poet and priest of Bemerton. 2010 ed. University of Delaware Press, p. 91-109
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E. & Wilcox, H., 1 Oct 2010, In: Default journal. 96, 1, p. 20-40
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2009

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Ghose, I. (Editor) & Renevey, D. (Editor), 1 Jan 2009, The Construction of Textual Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.. 2009 ed. Gunter Narr Verlag Tubingen, p. 177-197
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Finch, J. (Editor), Johnson, A. (Editor) & Gill, M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2009, Humane Readings: Essays on Literary Mediation and Communication in Honour of Roger D. Sell. 2009 ed. John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 17-30
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E. & Wilcox, H., 1 Jul 2009, In: Home Cultures. 6, 2, p. 149-161
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Sell, R. D. (Editor) & Johnson, A. W. (Editor), 1 Jan 2009, Writing and Religion in England: 1558-1689.. 2009 ed. Ashgate, p. 253-272
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Knoppers, L. (Editor), 1 Jan 2009, The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. 2009 ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 208-221
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2008

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Van Dijkhuizen, J. F. (Editor) & Todd, R. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, The Reformation Unsettled: British Literature and the Question of Religious Identity: 1560-1660. 2008 ed. Brepols Publishers, p. 9-33
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Cottegnies, L. (Editor) & Gheeraert-Graffeuille, C. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, Les voix de Dieu: littérature et prophétie en Angleterre et en France à l'âge baroque. 2008 ed. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, p. 199-212
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., King, R. (Editor) & Franssen, P. J. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, Shakespeare and War. 2008 ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 84-95
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Walthaus, R. (Editor) & Corporaal, M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, Heroines of the Golden Stage: Women and Drama in Spain and England 1500-1700.. 2008 ed. Kassel, p. 32-49
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Dutcher, J. M. (Editor) & Lake Prescott, A. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney. 2008 ed. University of Delaware Press, p. 313-329
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2007

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Waller, G. (Editor), 1 Jan 2007, In: Default journal. p. 140-154
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilcox, H. & Wilcox, H. E. (Editor), 1 Jan 2007, 2007 ed. Cambridge University Press.
  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

2006

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Bedford, R. (Editor), Davies, L. (Editor) & Kelly, P. (Editor), 1 Jan 2006, Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices. 2006 ed. University of Michigan Press, p. 131-159
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• Published
  Wilcox, H. E. (Editor), Wilcox, H. (Editor) & Visser, I. (Editor), 1 Jan 2006, 2006 ed. Peeters Publishers.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book

2002

• Published
  Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Loewenstein, D. (Editor) & Mueller, J. (Editor), 1 Jan 2002, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. 2002 ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 737-762
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

1999

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