David Kastan
Ph.D., University of Chicago
B.A., Princeton University
Although I teach broadly across the field of Renaissance literature, my primary intellectual concern is with the relations of literature and history in early modern England, considered from a variety of perspectives. Increasingly this interest has focused on the production, transmission, and reception of texts (a focus that I like to think of as “the new boredom”). I am one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare and the series editor of the new Barnes and Noble Shakespeare, and I have edited Milton’s Paradise Lost and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. A new book, Shakespeare and Religion will soon be published by OUP, and I am presently working on two new projects: The Invention of English Literature, and, with the painter Stephen Farthing, a book called Living Color.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, (ed.), OUP, 2006
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, (ed.), Hackett, 2005
- Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (A and B texts), (ed.), Norton, 2005
- William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, (ed.), Arden edition, 2002
- Shakespeare and the Book, CUP, 2001
- Shakespeare after Theory, Routledge, 1999
- A Companion to Shakespeare (ed.), Blackwell, 1999
- The New History of Early English Drama (ed., with John Cox), Columbia, 1997