Curtis Perry
Department Head, Professor of English
Contact Information
- Address: 208 English
- Telephone: 217-333-2390
- Email: cperry@illinois.edu
Office Hours
- For Fall 2008: Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00
Teaching Interests
Early British literature; history of drama; renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Milton; other interesting things!
Research Interests
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
Selected Publications
Books
- 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.
- Material Culture and Cultural Materialism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. Curtis Perry. Brepols, 2001.
- Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford, and Shakespeare. Ed. Curtis Perry. McFarland, 2008.
- Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. Ed. Curtis Perry and John Watkins. Oxford University Press, 2009.
