“Ha*l*t is a play about a play that never happened.” Notes on HA*L*T

Author Biography

• Imke Lichterfeld, University of Bonn, Germany

  Imke Lichterfeld, PhD, is the Studies Coordinator at the Department of English, American and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn. Her research interests and teaching include early modern drama, Shakespeare, and his contemporaries, as well as Modernism, and New Nature Writing. She published a monograph called When the Bad Bleeds on English revenge tragedy, co-edited Changing Shakespeare? Female Actors – (Fe)male Characters?, and has contributed to volumes such as The Language of Democratization. Roles, Social Positions, and Discourse (2026) or The Moment of Death in Early Modern Europe (2024), and journals like Cahiers Élisabéthains, Shakespeare en Devenir, and Teaching Shakespeare; she is a member of, among others, ESRA, BSA, SFS, and the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.