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. She is an editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre, and a contributor to Records of Early English Drama. She has published numerous articles on early theatre and masque, and performance at the English and Scottish royal courts.

Selected publications

  • "The Theatre Scene I", in Randall Stevenson and Greg Walker, The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre.
  • "The Places of Foolery: Robert Armin and fooling in Edinburgh", Medieval English Theatre, 37.
  • "Gely with tharmys of Scotland and England: Word, Image and Performance at the Marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor", in Fresche Fontanis, pp. 165–178.
  • "Masking and politics: the Alison Craik incident, Edinburgh 1561", Renaissance Studies, 21:5, pp. 625–636.
  • "To thexaltacyon of noblesse: A Herald's Account of the Marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV", Medieval English Theatre 29.
  • with Meg Twycross, Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England.
  • "Women and Carnival Masking", Records of Early English Drama Newsletter, 21:2, pp. 9–16.
  • "The Sixteenth-century Court Audience: Performers and Spectators", MeTH, 19, pp. 18–28.
  • "Walter Binning: Theatrical and Decorative Painter", MeTH, 10, pp. 17–25.
  • "Morality-Play Characters", Medieval English Theatre, 5:1, pp. 18–28.