Hoffman Prize Winners

Hoffman Prize Winners

YearWinner(s)EstablishmentEssay TitleAdjudicator
1988David WebbLancaster UniversityPageants Truly Play’d: Self-dramatization in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and Edward II Discussed in Relation to Shakespearian MelodramaStanley Wells
1989Dr. Kurt Tetzeli von RosadorMunster University, GermanyShakespeare and his Contemporaries: Essays in ComparisonStanley Wells or
Ernst Honigman*
1990Prof. Lawrence DansonPrinceton University, USAContinuity and Character in Marlowe and ShakespeareStanley Wells or
Ernst Honigman*
Dr. R. DuttonLancaster UniversityMarlowe: Censorship and Construction
1991Professor Thomas CartelliMuhlenberg College, USAMarlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical ExperienceStanley Wells or
Ernst Honigman*
1992Prize not awardedStanley Wells or
Ernst Honigman*
1993Dr. David PascoeOriel College, Oxford“To Possess His Books”: Ovid, Marlowe, and Shakespeare’s Last PlaysStanley Wells or
Ernst Honigman*
1994Dr. Lisa HopkinsSheffield Hallam University“Lear, Lear, Lear”: Marlowe, Shakespeare and the ThirdStanley Wells or
Ernst Honigman*
Prof. James ShapiroColumbia University, NYThe Stranger in Marlowe and Shakespeare
1995Prof. Jonathan BateUniversity of LiverpoolMarlowe’s GhostT.W.Craik
1996Dr. Ruth LunneyUniversity of Newcastle, AustraliaNot ‘Shakespearean’ but ‘Debatable’: Rewriting the Narrative of Dramatic CharacterT.W.Craik
1997Jill FarringdonUniversity of SwanseaAttributing Marlowe and ShakespeareDarryll Grantley
1998Prof. David RiggsStanford UniversityThe Killing of Christopher MarloweDarryll Grantley
1999Prof. Kent CartwrightUniversity of MarylandBearing Witness to TamburlaineDarryll Grantley
2000Prize not awardedJonathan Bate
2001Prof. Michael Hattaway MA PhDUniversity of SheffieldMyths of Empire, State and Nation in Marlovian and Shakespearian TextsJonathan Bate
Michael RubboThe Helpful Eye, NSWMuch Ado About Something
(video documentary)
2002Dr. Peter R. RobertsUniversity of Kent‘View but his picture in this tragic glass’: Marlowe’s Image and IdentityJonathan Bate
Lukas ErneGeneva UniversityBiography, Mythography, and Criticism: the Life and Works of Marlowe
2003Prof. A.L. Goldberger MD
Albert C.C. Yang MD
C.K. Peng PhD
Harvard Medical SchoolThe Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship Debate: Approaching an Old Problem with New MethodsJonathan Bate
2004Prize not awardedUnknown
2005Prof. Tom BishopUniversity of Auckland
University of Case Western Reserve, Ohio
The Shadow of Your Sorrow: Marlowe’s Presence in Shakespeare’s Richard IIUnknown
2006Dr. Martin WigginsThe Shakespeare Institute,
University of Birmingham
When did Marlowe Write Dido, Queen of Carthage?Park Honan
2007Peter Farey MAHoffman and the AuthorshipPark Honan
Timothy D. CrowleyUniversity of MarylandArms and the Boy: Aeneas & the Parody of Imitation in Dido, Queen of Carthage
2008Dr David MateerOpen UniversityNew Sightings of Marlowe in LondonPark Honan
Dr Goran StanivukovicUniversity of SheffieldRemember Me: Marlowe and the Pleasure of Influence in Shakespeare
2009Dr. Andrew DuxfieldSheffield Hallam UniversityIndividual and Multitude in The Jew of MaltaPark Honan
2010Dominic ClearyThe Senseless Lure: Lines of Debt and Detail from Marlowe to ShakespearePark Honan
Donna N. MurphyChristopher Marlowe and the Authorship of Early English Anonymous Plays
2011Ros BarberThe Marlowe PapersPark Honan
Dominic ClearyMirrors in a Maze: Shakespeare and Marlowe
Neal Fox
Omran Ehmoda
Eugene Charniak
Brown University, Rhode IslandStatistical Stylometrics and the Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship
2012Peter Farey MAArbella Stuart and Christopher MarlowePark Honan
Dr Peter R. RobertsUniversity of KentChristopher Marlowe at Cambridge, 1580-1587: Presences and Absences
2013Kirk MelnikoffUniversity of North CarolinaFlaskett and Linley’s Tragedy of Dido Queen of CarthagePark Honan
Dr Robert SawyerEast Tennessee State UniversityRecent Reckonings: Marlowe, Shakespeare and 21st Century Terrorism
2014Dr Ros BarberGoldsmiths, University of London“Shortly he will quite forget to go”: Marlowe and the Faustus EpigramsAlison Shell
Professor Laurie Maguire & Dr Emma SmithUniversity of OxfordWhat is a Source? Or, How Shakespeare Read his Marlowe
2015Professor Matthew SteggleSheffield Hallam UniversityMarlowe’s Lost Play: “The Maiden’s Holiday” and the Early Reception of “Come Live With MeAlison Shell
2016Asst Prof Claire M. L. BournePenn State UniversityMaking a Scene: Or, Tamburlaine the Great in PrintAlison Shell
2017Dr Peter R. RobertsUniversity of KentChristopher Marlowe, the Dutch Church Libel and the ‘Anti-Alien Riot’ of May 1593 in Theatre History and the Documentary Record
2017Assistant Prof Lucy PorterFrom forth Troy’s ashes”: Ekphrastic catharsis and alius Achilles in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage
2018Professor Lukas ErneUniversity of GenevaDisintegrating Marlowe
2018Dr Rosalind BarberGoldsmiths CollegeBig Data, Little Certainty: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Henry VI
2018Dr Rory LoughnaneUniversity of KentShakespeare, Marlowe, and Traces of Authorship
  • *Note on early Adjudicators: We believe that both Stanley Wells and Ernst Honigman separately acted as adjudicator in some of the years between 1988 and 1994, but not which of these adjudicated in which year. Please contact the Editor if you are able to help us on these details.