Dr Lamb’s research focuses on early modern literature, Renaissance performance cultures, and childhood studies. Her book, Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre, offered a new understanding of early modern childhood through its focus on the child performer.

Her second book, Reading Children in Early Modern Culture, explores how textual cultures articulate alternative understandings of childhood. She is developing a collaborative project, Shakespeare and Riot, that examines Shakespeare as a battleground for cultural, social and national identity.