Sarah Carpenter

Sarah Carpenter is an academic specialising in English literature and was head of department at the University of Edinburgh from 2003 to 2006.

Carpenter gained a PhD from the University of Oxford researching allegory in Tudor drama. ^[1] She is an editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre (MeTH), and a contributor to Records of Early English Drama (REED). She has published numerous articles on early theatre and masque, and performance at the English and Scottish royal courts. ^{[2] [3]}

Selected publications

• "The Theatre Scene I", in Randall Stevenson and Greg Walker, The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre (Oxford, 2025).
• "The Places of Foolery: Robert Armin and fooling in Edinburgh", Medieval English Theatre, 37 (2015).
• "Laughter and Sin: Vice Families in Tudor Interludes", Theta XII, Théâtre Tudor (2016), pp. 15-38
• "Laughing at Natural Fools", Theta XI, Théâtre Tudor (2013), pp. 3–22
• "Gely with tharmys of Scotland and England: Word, Image and Performance at the Marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor", in Fresche Fontanis (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013), pp. 165–178.
• "Masking and politics: the Alison Craik incident, Edinburgh 1561", Renaissance Studies, 21:5 (November, 2007), pp. 625–636.
• "To thexaltacyon of noblesse: A Herald's Account of the Marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV", Medieval English Theatre 29 (2007).
• "Performing Diplomacies: The 1560s Court Entertainments of Mary Queen of Scots", Scottish Historical Review, 82:2 no. 214 (2003), pp. 194–225
• with Meg Twycross, Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England (Ashgate, 2002). ^[4]
• "Women and Carnival Masking", Records of Early English Drama Newsletter, 21:2 (1996), pp. 9–16.
• "The Sixteenth-century Court Audience: Performers and Spectators", MeTH, 19 (1997), pp. 18–28.
• "Walter Binning: Theatrical and Decorative Painter", MeTH, 10 (1988), pp. 17–25.
• "Morality-Play Characters", Medieval English Theatre, 5:1 (1983), pp. 18–28.

References

1. Sarah M. Carpenter, "Allegory in the theatre: studies in the dramatic methods of the English allegorical plays of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and their bearing on the later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, in particular Shakespeare's Measure for measure", University of Oxford D.Phil. thesis (1980).
2. University of Edinburgh profile
3. Pamela M. King, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance (Routledge, 2017), p. x.
4. Bevington Award for Best New Book, 2004

External links

• REED project transcriptions from Scottish exchequer records (NRS E21/67, E35/13, E35/14); 1588-1590, 1590-1592, Sarah Carpenter