Dr. Chris Laoutaris is a biographer, historian, poet, Shakespeare scholar and Associate Professor at The Shakespeare Institute in Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon. His specialisms include Shakespeare’s First Folio, the history of Shakespeare’s theatres, women’s history, Renaissance politics, the early modern body and medicine, Renaissance magic and witchcraft, and the history of death, burial, and commemoration.
Books in order of publication:
Shakespearean Maternities: Crises of Conception in Early Modern England – 2008
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe – 2014
Bleed and See – 2022
Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare – 2023
Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare – 2023
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