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Books

  • Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power, Princeton University Press, 1989. (Nominated for the British Council Prize in the Humanities.)
  • A New History of Early English Drama, co-edited with David Scott Kastan, Columbia University Press, 1997. (Awarded the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Book of the Year Award for 1997.)
  • The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642, Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Finalist for the David Bevington Prize for a New Book by a Member of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.)
  • Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI, co-edited with Eric Rasmussen, Third Arden Edition, Arden Shakespeare, 2001.
  • Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith, Baylor University Press, 2007.

Articles

  • "The Error of Our Eye in Troilus and Cressida," Comparative Drama, 10 (1976), 147?71.
  • "Darwin's Revolution from Hume's Perspective," Christian Scholar's Review, 6 (1976), 52?57.
  • "Epistemological Release in The Silver Chair," in The Longing for a Form; Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis, ed. Peter J. Schakel. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1977. Pp. 159?68.
  • "Poetry and History in Milton's Country Masque," ELH, 44 (1977), 622?40.
  • "Homely Matter and Multiple Plots in Peele's Old Wives Tale," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 20 (1978), 330?46.
  • "Henry VIII and the Masque," ELH, 45 (1978), 390?409.
  • "3 Henry VI: Dramatic Convention and the Shakespearean History Play, Comparative Drama, 12 (1978), 42?60.
  • "The Medieval Background of Measure for Measure," Modern Philology, 81 (1983), 1-12.
  • "Tolkien's Platonic Fantasy," Seven, 5 (1984), 53?69.
  • "Renaissance Power and Stuart Dramaturgy: Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden," Comparative Drama 22 (1989), 323-58.
  • "Rediscovering the Rose Theater," The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 12 (1989), 5-9 (invited article).
  • "From the Heart of Bone: the Painterly Vision of Mervyn Peake," Peake Studies 1 (1989), 5-16.
  • "Nominalist Ethics and the New Historicism," Christianity and Literature 39 (1990), 127-39 (invited article).
  • "The Politics of Stuart Medievalism," Yearbook of English Studies 21 (1991), 187-96; reprinted in Patronage, Politics, and Literary Tradition in England 1558-1658, ed. Cedric C. Brown. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1993. Pp. 211-20.
  • "The New Historicism," essay requested for an anthology entitled Literary Theory: A Christian Appraisal, ed. Clarence Walhout and Leland Ryken. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991. Pp. 252-70.
  • "Miles Christi" article in A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. Pp. 506-9.
  • "Devils and Power in Marlowe and Shakespeare," Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993), 46-64.
  • "Drama, the Devil, and Social Conflict in Late Medieval England," American Benedictine Review 45 (1994), 341-62.
  • "The Devil and Society in the English Mystery Plays," Comparative Drama 28 (1994-95), 407-38.
  • "The Turn to History," essay requested for an anthology entitled The Discerning Reader, ed. David Barratt et al. Grand Rapids: Baker; Leicester: Apollos, 1995. Pp. 85-102.
  • "Devils and Vices in English Non-cycle Plays: Sacrament and Social Body," Comparative Drama 30 (1996): 188-219.
  • "Under the Eye of James Joyce: Christopher Nolan's Celebration of Influence," Christianity and Literature 46 (1997), 273-91.
  • "Stage Devils in English Reformation Plays," Comparative Drama 32 (1998), 85-116.
  • "Stage Devilry in Two King's Men's Plays of 1606," Modern Language Review 93 (1998), 934-47.
  • "Local References in 3 Henry VI," Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (2000), 340-52.
  • "Recovering Something Christian about The Tempest," Christianity and Literature 50 (2000), 31-51. (Invited article for the 50th anniversary issue of C&L.)
  • "Barnabe Barnes," invited article for The New Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming).
  • "Open Stage, Open Page? Editing Stage Directions in Early Dramatic Texts," essay forthcoming in a collection of essays on editing early drama, ed., Margaret Jane Kidnie and Lukas Erne.
  • "Shakespeare and Philosophy," essay forthcoming, commissioned by Philosophy and Literature.


 
 

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