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Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley.
Professor, Queens College. English.
Selected Publications:
- Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. A study of Skelton, Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell ranging from the beginnings of the Tudor dynasty to the Glorious Revolution. Honorable Mention, Association of American Scholars, Scholarly Publishing Division Awards. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231126166.HTM
- The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry. The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 7. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
- Sir Philip Sidney: Rebellion in Arcadia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1979. Nominated for the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize, the Explicator Literary Foundation Award, and the Northeastern Graduate Schools Association Award, 1980.
- "Church and State in the New World," in The World of 1607 (Jamestown Centenary catalogue), ed. David Armitage (forthcoming).
- "'The Grace of Grace' and Double-Talk in Macbeth. Shakespeare Survey 57 (2004): 27-37.
- "Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity." The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Tragedies. Ed. Jean Howard and Richard Dutton. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 290-325.
- "Shakespeare and Kingship." Guide to the Season's Plays. Washington, D.C.: The Shakespeare Theatre, 2003. 8-12.
- "'Look Upon Me Sir': Relationships in King Lear. Representations 81 (2003):46-60.
- "A Wedding and Four Funerals: Conjunction and Commemoration in Hamlet." Shakespeare Survey 54 (2001): 122-39.
- "Loves Martyrs: Shakespeare's 'Phoenix and Turtle' and the Sacrificial Sonnets." Religion and Culture in Renaissance England. Ed. Debora Shuger and Claire McEachern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 188-208.
- "Eulogies to Elegies: Poetic Distance in Spenser's April Eclogue." Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Honor of S.K. Heninger. Ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 52-69.
- "Old English Honour in an Evil Time: Aristocratic Principle in the 1620s." Ed. R. Malcolm Smuts. The Stuart Court and Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 133-56.
- "The Queen and Her Lords of Liberty." in The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. John Guy, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; 212-228.
- "'Thou Idol Ceremony': Elizabeth I, the Henriad, and the Rites of the English Monarch." Urban Life in the Renaissance. Susan Zimmerman and Ron Weissman, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989; 240-266.
- "From the Tower to the Tiltyard: Robert Dudley's Return to Glory." Historical Journal, 27 (1984), 425-435.
Work in Progress:
- Performative Grace in Shakespeare's Plays. A study of links between Reformation liturgical theology and contemporary performance theory in early modern drama.
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