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W. Davies King Professor and Graduate Advisor Teaching Schedule, Office Hours & Location
Th 3-430 (F09) Research D.F.A., Yale School of DramaTeaches theater history, dramatic theory, and dramatic literature, specializing in English and American, as well as ancient Greek drama. Among American topics his interests range from melodrama to avant-garde performance, from the classic or canonical to the utterly obscure and subversive. He is the author of the recently released Collections of Nothing (University of Chicago Press)—part memoir, part essay on the practice of collecting. An earlier version of portions of this book appeared in The Oldest We’ve Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transition, edited by Maud Lavin (Arizona). His study of Agnes Boulton and her marriage to Eugene O'Neill is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. He is also working on the portrayal of darkness and sixth sense on the 19th-century English stage, encompassing performances of mesmerism, spiritualism, and science, as well as drama. Selected Publications: Collections of Nothing (2008); "A Wind Is Rising": Correspondence of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton (2000); Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn (1997); Henry Irving's "Waterloo": Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig, Late-Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men, War, and History (winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Theatre, 1993). Recent seminars: The Roots of Broadway; The Group Theatre and Its Legacy; Greek Tragedy in Performance, Translation, and Adaptation; Dramatic Theory: The Iron Age to Frye and Beyond; Tragicomedy; Eugene O'Neill; Melodrama, Anton Chekhov. Contact
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