Lawrence Manley
William R Kenan Jr Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies
LC
309| 432-2249 | lawrence.manley@yale.edu
LC 106 (DUS) | 432-2225
Office hours: T 2-4
On leave fall of 2008
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Harvard University, 1977
B.A., English Literature, Dartmouth College, 1971
INTERESTS: Shakespeare; literature of the English and continental Renaissance; history of rhetoric and literary criticism; literature and society.
Lawrence Manley's fields of interest include the poetry, prose, and drama of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, with a particular emphasis on literature and society, theater history, intellectual history, and the classical foundations of the English literary and critical traditions. He is the author of Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (1995) and Convention, 1500-1750 (1980), and the editor of London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology (1986). He has contributed to The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, and The Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Drama. His current projects include a study of folie à deux in the works of Shakespeare and a book on Lord Strange’s Men and their plays.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
--“Dryden’s London,” in John Dryden (1631-1700). His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets, ed. Claude Rawson and Aaron Santesso ( University of Delaware Press, 2004)
--“From Strange’s Men to Pembroke’s Men: 2 Henry VI and The First Part of the Contention,” Shakespeare Quarterly, 54:3 (2003)
--“Literature and the Metropolis,” in The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller ( Cambridge, 2002)
--“Civic Drama,” in The Blackwell Companion to English Renaissance Drama, ed. Arthur B. Kinney (Blackwell, 2002)
--“Playing with Fire: Immolation and the Repertory of Strange’s Men,” Early Theatre, 4 (2001)
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Major English Poets; Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies; Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances; Renaissance Lyric
GRADUATE COURSES: Introduction to Renaissance Studies; Shakespeare and the Comedy of Evil; History and Historical Drama in the Age of Shakespeare; Jacobean Shakespeare
