Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Associate Professor

Office: 349 English
Office Phone: 333-3181
Home Phone: 352-4947

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Courses

ENGLISH 117: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM AND VIDEOTAPE: FROM TEXT TO SCREEN

ENGLISH 199: UNDERGRADUATE OPEN SEMINAR
(JAMES SCHOLAR SECTION)
TOPIC: SHAKESPEARE: PAGE, STAGE AND SCREEN

ENGLISH 209: ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1798

ENGLISH 218: INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

ENGLISH 318: SHAKESPEARE

ENGLISH 398: HONORS SEMINAR III
TOPIC: SHAKESPEAREAN AUDIENCES AND THE PUBLIC STAGE

ENGLISH 419 E: SEMINAR IN SHAKESPEARE --- TOPIC: Shakespearean Plays, Printed Bodies, Performing Words

ENGLISH 424 G SEMINAR IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE
TOPIC: Popular Literature in Early Modern England

ENGLISH 520: SEMINAR IN 16TH CENTURY LITERATURE
TOPIC: POPULAR PRINT CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

 

Areas of Interest:

17-century English literature, especially fiction and drama; theories of class, gender, audience, and cultural value.

Publications:

Articles on the Elizabethan prose romance as emergent popular culture, the elevation of the novel, and servants as readers.

Work in Progress:

Making Popular Romance in Early Modern England (forthcoming, Columbia University Press)

Links:

Libraries, Universities, Reference:

Oxford English Dictionary
Folger Shakespeare Library
Colleges and Universities - United Kingdom
UIUC Library
UIUC Online Information Resources
UIUC English Library
Lilly Library Homepage
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies


Shakespeare & Renaissance:

Luminarium
Aemilia Lanyer, 17th-C English Woman Poet
British Tourist Authority
Chicago Shakespeare Repertory
Furness Shakespeare Library
London Shakespeare Globe Theater
London Theatre Web
Milton Home Page
Official BTA site for London
Official London Theatre Guide
Official Site for Stratford-upon-Avon
Renaissance English Texts
Renaissance Forum
Renaissance Texts Research Centre Shakespeare
Renaissance Women Writers
Selected Poetry of Robert Greene
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shakespeare Globe USA
Site for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
The Open University / BBC Shakespeare Multimedia Research Project
UK Theatre Web
US Theater Search
Voice of the Shuttle