Richard James Wood

Richard J. Wood is a specialist in Early Modern English Literature, the author of a monograph, Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue (Manchester University Press, 2020), on Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Reformation theology, as well as journal articles on Sidney's Arcadia in the Sidney Journal and Early Modern Literary Studies. He contributed essays on Sidney to two collections: Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier, edited by Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese Connolly (Manchester University Press, 2013); and Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England, edited by Naomi Miller and Karen Bamford (Routledge, 2015).

He wrote the chapter on William Cavendish and Elizabethan Nostalgia in A Companion to the Cavendishes: Writing, Patronage and Material Culture, edited by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter (ARC Humanities Press, 2020).

He is the Associate Editor of Chapters VI, VII and VIII of The Year's Work in English Studies (OUP), and the author of the entries on Sidney and Spenser in the same publication.

He recently reviewed Charles Stanley Ross and Joel B. Davis's Restoration in Contemporary English of the Complete 1593 Edition of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (Parlor Press, 2017) for the Spenser Review (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/49.3.18/).

He contributed the entries on Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to The Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare (2012) and reviews of modern performances of Renaissance theatre to Early Modern Literary Studies and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Performance Chronicle.