MA, PhD
Emeritus Professor
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- Email Address
- d.w.hughes@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Derek Hughes (MA, PhD) has written extensively on seventeenth and early eighteenth century English literature, with special interests in drama, women's writing, and representations of America. He also works on the relationship between literature and music, and on comparative literature, particularly on the relationship between English, classical, and German texts. His monographs include English Drama,1660-1700 (1996), The Theatre of Aphra Behn (2001), and Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera (2007), which studies the literary treatment of human sacrifice from Homer to the present day. He has edited Women Dramatists of the Eighteenth Century (2001) and Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century (2007). Culture and Sacrifice contains a chapter on Wagner, on whom he has continued to work for the past twenty years, analysing the many errors and anachronisms which contribute to Wagner's current evil reputation. He has published many articles in The Wagner Journal and, most recently, is the author of Wagner: the Invention of a Monster (2026).
- Research
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Research Overview
Greek and Latin Literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, Comparative Literature, opera (especially Wagner).