Felicity Brown

Felicity’s research interests are in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature, particularly in the reception of classical and medieval texts. She is completing a book that traces the proliferation of the Arthurian legend in performance at a time when England no longer fit its own Tudor mythology. She is also writing about miniature Shakespearean books and beginning a project on the work of John Dryden.

Felicity is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and has held fellowships at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Huntington Library in California. Her work has been awarded the Derek Brewer Early Career Essay Prize and The Society for Theatre Research’s Anthony Denning Award.

At Wadham Felicity teaches Final Honours School ‘Paper 4: Literature in English 1660-1760’, but she has held lectureships at several colleges in Oxford – including Balliol, Christ Church, Somerville, St John’s, and St Peter’s – where she has also taught FHS ‘Paper 1: Shakespeare’ and ‘Paper 3: Literature in English 1550-1660’.

• ‘The Bard Bounded: Miniature Shakespearean Book Boxes’, Inscription – the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History, Issue 5 ‘Containers’ (2025), 13–26.
• ‘George Gascoigne Proliferative Poetics’, in Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. Emma Rhatigan and Jackie Watson (Palgrave, 2025), 203–218.
• ‘Playing Arthur: Making the Elizabethan Mariner’, Arthurian Literature (2024), 1–19.
• ‘A Chivalric Show of Civic Virtue: The Society of Prince Arthur’s Archers’, The Review of English Studies, 73 (2022), 43–58.
• ‘Sourcing Misfortunes: Translation and Tragedy at Gray’s Inn’, Early Theatre, 24.2 (2021), 157–70.