Carol Chillington Rutter

Carol Chillington Rutter is Emerita Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick.

In 2023 she was Visiting Fellow at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice.

She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio arts programmes and a rehearsal consultant for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Her Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today (Women’s Press) has been published in five editions and is widely recognised as the classic work on women in Shakespeare.

Her Antony and Cleopatra in Performance (Manchester University Press) identified the ‘whiting-out’ of Shakespeare's black Egypt across centuries and resulted in the restoration of a black Cleopatra to the English stage in 2013.

Lying Abroad - Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy will be published by Manchester University Press in 2026.

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