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Dr Velda Elliott, University of Oxford.

Victoria Elliott is Associate Professor of English and Literacy Education at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of St Hilda's College. She works with teachers on the PGCE English and the Masters in Learning and Teaching, and teaches qualitative methods to doctoral researchers. She is also an external subject expert for Ofqual. Having studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, she taught English in secondary state schools, and now researches English in Education. She is particularly interested in drama, theatre and literature in the English curriculum.

Her current work looks at the place of Hamlet and Henry IV Part I in the AQA A level study units 'Elements of Crime Writing' and 'Elements of Social and Political Protest Literature'. This paper will explore how far the generic conventions (as far as they exist) can be seen in these plays, whether viewing the plays through the lens of these genres can be helpful or interesting, and whether it is pedagogically appropriate for A level students to retrofit genre to Shakespeare in this way.