Hoffman Prize Winners

Year	Winner(s)	Establishment	Essay Title	Adjudicator
1988	David Webb	Lancaster University	Pageants Truly Play’d: Self-dramatization in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and Edward II Discussed in Relation to Shakespearian Melodrama	Stanley Wells
1989	Dr. Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador	Munster University, Germany	Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Essays in Comparison	Stanley Wells or Ernst Honigman^*
1990	Prof. Lawrence Danson	Princeton University, USA	Continuity and Character in Marlowe and Shakespeare	Stanley Wells or Ernst Honigman^*
	Dr. R. Dutton	Lancaster University	Marlowe: Censorship and Construction
1991	Professor Thomas Cartelli	Muhlenberg College, USA	Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience	Stanley Wells or Ernst Honigman^*
1992	Prize not awarded			Stanley Wells or Ernst Honigman^*
1993	Dr. David Pascoe	Oriel College, Oxford	“To Possess His Books”: Ovid, Marlowe, and Shakespeare’s Last Plays	Stanley Wells or Ernst Honigman^*
1994	Dr. Lisa Hopkins	Sheffield Hallam University	“Lear, Lear, Lear”: Marlowe, Shakespeare and the Third	Stanley Wells or Ernst Honigman^*
	Prof. James Shapiro	Columbia University, NY	The Stranger in Marlowe and Shakespeare
1995	Prof. Jonathan Bate	University of Liverpool	Marlowe’s Ghost	T.W.Craik
1996	Dr. Ruth Lunney	University of Newcastle, Australia	Not ‘Shakespearean’ but ‘Debatable’: Rewriting the Narrative of Dramatic Character	T.W.Craik
1997	Jill Farringdon	University of Swansea	Attributing Marlowe and Shakespeare	Darryll Grantley
1998	Prof. David Riggs	Stanford University	The Killing of Christopher Marlowe	Darryll Grantley
1999	Prof. Kent Cartwright	University of Maryland	Bearing Witness to Tamburlaine	Darryll Grantley
2000	Prize not awarded			Jonathan Bate
2001	Prof. Michael Hattaway MA PhD	University of Sheffield	Myths of Empire, State and Nation in Marlovian and Shakespearian Texts	Jonathan Bate
	Michael Rubbo	The Helpful Eye, NSW	Much Ado About Something (video documentary)
2002	Dr. Peter R. Roberts	University of Kent	‘View but his picture in this tragic glass’: Marlowe’s Image and Identity	Jonathan Bate
	Lukas Erne	Geneva University	Biography, Mythography, and Criticism: the Life and Works of Marlowe
2003	Prof. A.L. Goldberger MD Albert C.C. Yang MD C.K. Peng PhD	Harvard Medical School	The Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship Debate: Approaching an Old Problem with New Methods	Jonathan Bate
2004	Prize not awarded			Unknown
2005	Prof. Tom Bishop	University of Auckland University of Case Western Reserve, Ohio	The Shadow of Your Sorrow: Marlowe’s Presence in Shakespeare’s Richard II	Unknown
2006	Dr. Martin Wiggins	The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham	When did Marlowe Write Dido, Queen of Carthage?	Park Honan
2007	Peter Farey MA		Hoffman and the Authorship	Park Honan
	Timothy D. Crowley	University of Maryland	Arms and the Boy: Aeneas & the Parody of Imitation in Dido, Queen of Carthage
2008	Dr David Mateer	Open University	New Sightings of Marlowe in London	Park Honan
	Dr Goran Stanivukovic	University of Sheffield	Remember Me: Marlowe and the Pleasure of Influence in Shakespeare
2009	Dr. Andrew Duxfield	Sheffield Hallam University	Individual and Multitude in The Jew of Malta	Park Honan
2010	Dominic Cleary		The Senseless Lure: Lines of Debt and Detail from Marlowe to Shakespeare	Park Honan
	Donna N. Murphy		Christopher Marlowe and the Authorship of Early English Anonymous Plays
2011	Ros Barber		The Marlowe Papers	Park Honan
	Dominic Cleary		Mirrors in a Maze: Shakespeare and Marlowe
	Neal Fox Omran Ehmoda Eugene Charniak	Brown University, Rhode Island	Statistical Stylometrics and the Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship
2012	Peter Farey MA		Arbella Stuart and Christopher Marlowe	Park Honan
	Dr Peter R. Roberts	University of Kent	Christopher Marlowe at Cambridge, 1580-1587: Presences and Absences
2013	Kirk Melnikoff	University of North Carolina	Flaskett and Linley’s Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage	Park Honan
	Dr Robert Sawyer	East Tennessee State University	Recent Reckonings: Marlowe, Shakespeare and 21st Century Terrorism
2014	Dr Ros Barber	Goldsmiths, University of London	“Shortly he will quite forget to go”: Marlowe and the Faustus Epigrams	Alison Shell
	Professor Laurie Maguire & Dr Emma Smith	University of Oxford	What is a Source? Or, How Shakespeare Read his Marlowe
2015	Professor Matthew Steggle	Sheffield Hallam University	Marlowe’s Lost Play: “The Maiden’s Holiday” and the Early Reception of “Come Live With Me“	Alison Shell
2016	Asst Prof Claire M. L. Bourne	Penn State University	Making a Scene: Or, Tamburlaine the Great in Print	Alison Shell
2017	Dr Peter R. Roberts	University of Kent	Christopher Marlowe, the Dutch Church Libel and the ‘Anti-Alien Riot’ of May 1593 in Theatre History and the Documentary Record
2017	Assistant Prof Lucy Porter		From forth Troy’s ashes”: Ekphrastic catharsis and alius Achilles in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage’
2018	Professor Lukas Erne	University of Geneva	Disintegrating Marlowe
2018	Dr Rosalind Barber	Goldsmiths College	Big Data, Little Certainty: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Henry VI
2018	Dr Rory Loughnane	University of Kent	Shakespeare, 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.

Hoffman Prize Winners

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