Shakespeare's Drinking Songs

Jennifer Waghorn is a theatre history researcher and musician. Her doctoral thesis explored the original music of Shakespeare’s theatre company and the seventeenth-century composers who worked between the theatre and the court.

She has published work on music in seventeenth-century theatrical revivals, Shakespearean actor-musicians, Shakespeare as "corpse and corpus", and the lives of early modern women connected to Shakespeare’s theatre company. She has provided edited music and commentaries for critical editions of early modern plays and has advised on music history for RSC productions since 2018.

She previously worked as a Lecturer for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and currently works for the Birmingham Museums Trust