Jacqueline Mulhallen

... remember the Blake last year - well a senior lecturer at Sheffield University is going to use it in her teaching because she says it is such a lucid account of Blake's achievement!

"Highly readable, this is an absorbing study of Shelley’s life, thought, and writing. Jacqueline Mulhallen has written a valuable book." Michael O'Neill

Prose

"Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life" Benjamin Zephaniah

Books

Jackie has published two books on the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley a chapter on the dance artist Viganò, and a chapter on the actress Eliza O'Neill, together with a poem.

Jackie had read Shelley's poetry from the age of 13, and wrote a biographical play about him, Shadow of the Soul, for Lynx Theatre and Poetry. Her extensive research for this play inspired Jackie to study for a PhD with the wellknown Shelley scholar Nora Crook. The thesis was published, to great praise, and has led to other chapters and books being published.

"The Theatre of Shelley is a valuable contribution to critical understanding of an often-neglected aspect of Shelley’s work."

Times Literary Supplement

The Theatre of Shelley

Jackie's first book on Shelley was The Theatre of Shelley (Cambridge: Openbook Publishers, 2010), a ground-breaking study of his plays which places them fully in the context of his time and his experience of the theatre.

It received praise from general readers, academics and the Times Literary Supplement.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

Jackie's political biography of Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, October 2015), is now available.

It has attracted accolades even before being published from:

Benjamin Zephaniah (poet, writer and musician)
Stephen C. Behrendt (George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska)
Michael O’Neill (Professor of English, Durham University)
Nicholas Roe (Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews)
Michael Rossington (Professor of Romantic Literature, Newcastle University)

More reviews are available here.

Videos of the book launch at the Keats House Museum in London are available here.

"A compelling and eye-opening study, thoroughly researched and engagingly written." Stephen Behrendt

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen, published by Pluto Press

The Theatre of Shelley by Jacqueline Mulhallen

Books

Shelley biography

Theatre of Shelley

Leaflets for the Restoring the Repertoire series at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

Jacqueline Mulhallen's programme notes for Black-ey'd Susan by Douglas Jerrold

Theatre writing

Eliza O’Neill and the art of acting

Exploring the Lives of Women (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018) is available on Amazon and Wordery. The book includes Jackie's essay 'Eliza O’Neill and the art of acting' and her poem 'Stilts'.

The Women's Study Group 1558 - 1837 held a launch event on the afternoon of Saturday 8 December 2018 at the Foundling Museum

in London, when Jackie recited 'Stilts'. A video of her recital is available here.

Shelley and the Dance Artist Viganò

Jackie was also commissioned to contribute ‘Shelley and the Dance Artist Viganò’ as a chapter to The Oxford Handbook to the Georgian Theatre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). This book was shortlisted for the theatre award 2015.

From the inception of the Restoring the Repertoire programme in April, 2004, until November, 2006, Jackie worked as researcher at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. She wrote the programme notes and discussed the historical perspective with actors.

The plays ranged from Hannah Cowley’s The Belle’s Stratagem to J.R. Planché’s The Vampire and R.B. Peake’s Presumption, and the notes will be gradually made available here by clicking on the relevant programme.

It was Jackie who discovered that eighteenth century woman playwright Elizabeth Inchbald was a local girl! A number of Inchbald's plays were performed including Lovers’ Vows, Animal Magnetism, and Wives as they Were, Maids as They Are.

'Focus on Finland', Theatre Australia, 1979, was an article based on her year in Finland studying Finnish theatre.