Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection Dynasty, Ideology, and National Culture

Sally Barnden, Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture, Swansea University,Gordon McMullan, Professor of English, King's College London,Kate Retford, Professor of History of Art and Head of the School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck, University of London,Kirsten Tambling, Previously postdoctoral research associate for 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection', and subsequently Associate Lecturer on the Curating the Art Museum programme, Courtauld Institute of Art

Sally Barnden (BA York, MA, and PhD King's College London) is a Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University, and was a postdoctoral research associate for 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection.' She is the author of Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance (Cambridge, 2020) and Shakespeare and the Royal Actor (Oxford, 2024).

Gordon McMullan (BA Birmingham, MA Kansas, DPhil Oxford) is a Professor of English at King's College London, where he has worked since 1995; prior to that he was a lecturer in English at Newcastle University. He has held fellowships in the United States, Australia, and Denmark; he has published in the fields of Shakespeare, early modern drama, late-life creativity, and environmental humanities; and in 2016 he received the Globe Theatre's Sam Wanamaker Award for his creation and direction of Shakespeare400, London's consortium marking the Shakespeare Quatercentenary. He was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection' (2018-22).

Kate Retford (BA, MA, and PhD University of Warwick) is a Professor of History of Art and Head of the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on eighteenth-century British art, particularly on gender, portraiture, and the country house. Her research has been funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the AHRC, the British Academy, and, most recently, the Leverhulme Trust. Her recent publications include The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2017) and The Georgian London Town House: Building, Collecting and Display, co-edited with Susanna Avery-Quash (2019).

Kirsten Tambling completed her PhD in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau and William Hogarth. She was a postdoctoral research associate for 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collection', and subsequently Associate Lecturer on the Curating the Art Museum programme at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has worked in various museums and collections, including the Royal Collection Trust and Watts Gallery, where she was co-curator of the exhibition James Henry Pullen: Inmate, Inventor, Genius (2018). She has published articles on eighteenth-century art, the intersection of art and psychiatry and the history of collections.

Introduction, Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, and Kirsten Tambling16161. The 'Disappointment' of Charles I's Shakespeare Second Folio, Gordon McMullan17002. Henry V and Early Hanoverian Self-Fashioning, Emrys Jones3. 'A Wild and Unruly Youth', Kate Retford4. Moral painting, Shormishtha Panja5. David Garrick and the President's Chair, Anna Myers6. Queen Charlotte and the Royal Narratives of Boydell's Shakespeare Prints, Rosie Dias7. George III and the other 'Mad King', Arthur Burns8. Disability and Mutable Spectatorship, Essaka Joshua9. Fake and Authentic Shakespeare, Fiona Ritchie180010. 'Well-Authenticated Blocks', Mark Westgarth11. Why did George IV own a Shakespeare First Folio?, Emma Stuart12. From Performance to Portfolio, Kate Heard13. Hamlet Disowned, Michael Dobson14. Princess Victoria and the Cult of Celebrity, Lynne Vallone15. Shakespeare in the Rubens Room, Eilís Smyth16. Monument and Montage, Sally Barnden17. Puck and the Prince of Wales, Gail Marshall18. Much Ado about Tapestry, Morna O'Neill19. Disappearances and The Durbar, Vijeta Saini190020. 'All England in Warm Sepia': Queen Mary and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Kirsten Tambling21. Shakespeare in Miniature, Elizabeth Clark Ashby22. Shashibiya, Eleine Ng-Gagneux23. Cultural (Dis)inheritance and the Decline of Empire in The Prince's Choice, Kathryn Vomero SantosBibliography