My main research interests are the history of Shakespeare production within its wider cultural contexts and historical and contemporary feminist theatre. Publications include Harley Granville Barker: A Preface to Modern Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986) and The Tempest, a theatre history edition of the play in the Shakespeare in Production series (Cambridge University Press, 2000), as well as articles on Edith Craig, Cicely Hamilton, Lena Ashwell, Susan Glaspell, Sarah Daniels, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Caryl Churchill; I have also written introductions to thirteen plays by Eugene O’Neill, which Nick Hern Books published in ten volumes. At present, I am working as Theatre History Editor of Professor Andrew Gurr’s New Variorum Tempest team and have recently co-edited a new collection of theatre history essays, Shakespeare in Stages, for Cambridge University Press, to which I contributed an essay on Measure for Measure.  My next project will be co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History with my colleague David Wiles.  My research includes practical production work:  I directed the British premiere of Djanet Sears’s award-winning Harlem Duet as part of a Performance Research Project on Othello and the performance of race in productions and adaptations of Shakespeare’s play. I have also conducted a public workshop on Susan Glaspell’s The Verge at the Theatre Museum, London, and for the Department have directed Cicely Hamilton’s Diana of Dobson’s, Susannah Centlivre’s A Bickerstaff's Burying, Jacky Bratton's dramatisation of Villette, and two full-length devised plays called Fool’s Gold and The Last Resort. These last two plays were, respectively, a prequel to King Lear and a sequel to The Tempest, devised, staged, and acted by students in Production Projects.