Teaching
Shakespeare, early modern English literature, Milton, renaissance drama, history of drama
Specializations
Early modern English literature and culture, historicist criticism, renaissance classicism, drama.
Publications
Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2006) • The Making of Jacobean Culture:
James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997) • Ed., Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Brepols, 2001) • Numerous articles on a variety of topics relating to early modern English literature and culture.
Work in Progress
A larger project on Shakespeare's use of the representational resources of Senecan drama, and a number of smaller projects dealing with early modern English republicanism, early modernity and constructions of national identity, and the politics of drama.
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University of Illinois