David Bevington
Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Department of Comparative Literature
Office: Gates-Blake 510
Phone: (773) 702-9899
bevi@uchicago.edu
It is my pleasure and my honor to teach drama at the University of Chicago, focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Jonson, Marlowe, Webster, Middleton, Dekker, etc), as well as medieval drama and then the entire sweep of Western drama from Aeschylus and Sophocles down to Caryl Churchill and Tom Stoppard. In addition to courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and medieval drama, I co-teach (with Nick Rudall, a professional theater person and Professor of Greek) a two-quarter sequence called The History and Theory of Drama from the 5th century B.C. down to the present day. My critical writing and scholarship reflect to a large degree these same passionate interests. I am a senior editor of the Revels Plays, which publishes critical editions of plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries, and I am senior editor of a series of paperbacks called Revels Student Editions. Until recently and for many years I taught in a core humanities course at the University of Chicago on Greek Thought and Literature, from Homer and Herodotus down to Aristophanes and Plato. Here, and in a course on the Renaissance that I love to teach as well, I get a chance to teach nondramatic poetry and prose!
Work in Progress:
I am in the process of updating the 29-volume paperback edition of all of Shakespeare's works that I did for Bantam Books back in 1988. I am one of three senior editors of a forthcoming Cambridge edition of The Works of Ben Jonson. I am currently working on two books: one on Shakespeare's ideas, and another on the history of Hamlet from sources and original text to modern-day productions and critical reception.
Selected Publications:
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- From "Mankind" to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England (Harvard University Press, 1962)
- Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning (Harvard University Press, 1968)
- Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture (Harvard University Press, 1984)
- Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience (Blackwell Publishing, 2002)
- with Peter Holbrook (eds.). The Politics of the
Stuart Court Masque (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
- ed. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Longman)
- ed. Medieval Drama (Houghton Mifflin, 1975)
- ed. Henry IV (Oxford, 1987)
- ed. Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
- ed. Troilus and Cressida (Arden, 1998)
- ed. Anthology of Renaissance Drama (Norton, 2002)
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Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1959. Teaching at Chicago since 1968.
Department of English
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