David Hasberg Zirak-Schmidt

Forskningsinteresser

I am a literary historian specializing in early modern literature and drama. My research interests include gender, court performance and festival culture in Scandinavia and Britain, the intersections between political theory and literature as well as historical drama.

I have published on dramatists such as Shakespeare, James Shirley, John Webster and John Marston. I have furthermore published articles on the English history play, the iconography of the Eikon Basilike and the political aspects of Caroline drama.

I am currently working on a postdoctoral project that examines the cultural agency of Anna of Denmark and Danish-British cultural exchange in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.