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Dr. Mark Taylor
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Education:
- A.B., Yale University, 1961
- M.A., City University of New York Graduate Center, 1965
- Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center, 1969
Research and Scholarly Interests:
The literature of Renaissance England, especially Shakespeare. Poetry and the theory of poetry. Literature, the arts, and war.
Publications
Books
Shakespeare's Imitations (Newark: University of Delaware Press and Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2002; reprinted, 2004). Named by Choice as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003. "Clearly based on knowing these plays inside out, Taylor's study combines exemplary close reading and revitalized source study. . . . Taylor productively worries both the idea of imitating an imitation of an action and the ‘complete' incompleteness of the close." Barbara Hodgdon, "Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama," Studies in English Literature 43, 2 (Spring 2003). Also reviewed in Choice (January 2003); Bibliothéque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 65 (2003); Renaissance Quarterly 57, 1 (Spring 2004); Sixteenth Century Journal 35, 1 (2004); The Review of English Studies 54, 217 (November 2003); Shakespeare Quarterly 55 (Summer 2004).
Shakespeare's Darker Purpose (New York: AMS Press, 1982), which was called a "classic treatment of the subject" of incest and literature. Mark Thornton Burnett, Theater Review International 20, 1. "The value of Mr. Taylor's book lies . . . in the consistently provocative and insightful digressions which testify to the truth of Northrop Frye's observation that one will always get something out of reading a critic who loves and admires the work he is talking about, even if ultimately one does not agree with him." Larry S. Champion, Modern Language Review 81 (1986). Also reviewed in Times Literary Supplement; Cahiers Élisabethains (Montpellier).
The Soul in Paraphrase: George Herbert's Poetics (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974). Taylor's "intention, as well as his achievement, is that of a literary critic who will lead his readers toward fuller appreciation and comprehension of Herbert's poems. . . . [His] book will interest any reader who enjoys seventeenth-century English poetry." Joan Bennett in The Review of English Studies 27, 106 (May 1976). Also reviewed in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44, 3 (September 1976); Choice (April 1975).
Scholarly
Essays
"Shakespeare's Hamlet [3.1.151-62]," The Explicator 65,1 (Fall 2006)
“‘The King's Friend' in
Richard II: With Friends like the King, Who Needs Enemies?"
Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 11 (2004).
"Shakespeare's Kisses,"
Selected Papers from the Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia 28 (2005).
"Birth Order of Children in
King Lear,"
The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 23 (2003).
"The Shakespearean Minefield and the Silence of the Lambs,"
The Coleridge Bulletin 23, New Series (Spring 2004).
"Marvell's Mower and Keats's Knight,"
Literary Imagination 3, 1 (2001).
"The Fortunes of Alatiel: A Reading of
Decameron 2, 7,"
Forum Italicum 35, 2 (Fall 2001).
"From Agincourt to Bastogne: George S. Patton and the Rhetoric of Saint Crispin's Day,"
The Upstart Crow 19 (1999).
"‘The rest is silence,' Or Is It? Hamlet's Last Words,"
The Upstart Crow 17 (1997).
"Tim O'Brien's War,"
The Centennial Review 39 (1995).
"Farther Privileges: Conflict and Change in
Measure for Measure,"
Philological Quarterly 73 (1994). Reprinted in
Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook, vol. 86 (Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2005).
"Marvell's ‘To his Coy Mistress,' "
Explicator 53, 1 (1994).
"Prospero's Books and Stephano's Bottle: Colonial Experience in The Tempest,"
CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 22 (1993). Reprinted in
Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1993 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1993), "an annual compilation of the most noteworthy commentary on the works of Shakespeare published during the previous year."
"Voyeurism and Aposiopesis in Renaissance Poetry,"
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 4 (1992).
"Falstaff and the Origins of Private Life,"
Shakespeare Yearbook 3 (1992).
"Female Desire in
A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
Shakespeare Yearbook 2 (1991).
"Letters and Readers in
Macbeth,
King Lear, and
Twelfth Night,"
Philological Quarterly 69 (1990). Reprinted in
Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1990 (Gale,1990).
"Presence and Absence in
Much Ado about Nothing,"
The Centennial Review 33 (1989).
"Imitation and Perspective in
Henry V,"
CLIO 16 (1986).
"Keats's ‘Ode to a Nightingale,' "
Explicator 36, 3 (Spring 1978).
Popular
Essays
"What does Biography do? The Appetite for Lives." Commonweal 107, 1 (January 18, 1980).
"Novels or War Novels?" Commonweal 104, 18 (September 2, 1977).
"Modern Tragedies." Commonweal 103, 20 (September 24, 1976).
"Kevin McHale's Retreat." Commonweal 101, 16 (March 14, 1975).
"The Literature of War." Worldview 17, 10 (October 1974).
"Dos Passos Up and Down." Worldview 17, 8 (August 1974).
"Censorship or Pornography?" Commonweal 99, 10 (December 7, 1973).
"W. H. Auden's Vision of Eros." Commonweal 99, 4 (October 26, 1973).
"History, Humanism, and Simone Weil." Commonweal 98, 19 (August 24, 1973).
"The Value of Ezra Pound." Commonweal 97, 10 (December 8, 1972).
"Edmund Wilson and Literature." Commonweal 96, 16 (July 14, 1972).
"Baseball as Myth." Commonweal 106, 10 (May 12, 1972).
Scholarly
Reviews
“*Hamlet,’ Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency” by John E. Curran, Jr., Renaissance Quarterly, 50, 4 (Winter, 2007).”
“Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism” by Gabriel Egan, Renaissance Quarterly, 50, 1 (Spring 2007)
Shakespeare on the Edge: Border-Crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad, by Lisa Hopkins. Renaissance Quarterly 59, 3 (Fall 2006).
Cymbeline: Constructions of Britain, by Roz King. Renaissance Quarterly 59, 1 (Spring 2006).
A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. Adam Smyth.
Renaissance Quarterly 58,3 (Fall 2005).
Word against Word: Shakespearean Utterance, by James R. Siemon.
Renaissance Quarterly 57, 2 (Summer 2004).
Shakespeare's Theories of Blood, Character, and Class: A Festschrift in Honor of David Shelley Berkeley, ed. T. Alan Smith and Peter C. Rollins, and
Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital, ed. Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds.
Renaissance Quarterly 56, 3 (Autumn 2003).
Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking Through Language, by Alison Thorne.
Renaissance Quarterly 56, 1 (Spring 2003).
After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to Song, by Marc Berley.
Renaissance Quarterly 54, 4.2 (Winter 2001).
Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit i Renaissance English Poetry, by James Biester.
Renaissance Quarterly 52, 3 (Autumn 1999).
Cross-Cultural Performances: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare, ed Marianne Novy..
Renaissance Quarterly 51, 2 (Summer 1998).
Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books, by Frederick Kiefer.
The Sewanee Review 105, 1 (Winter 1997).
Hamlet and Narcissus, by John Russell.
Renaissance Quarterly 50, 3 (Autumn 1997).
My Greatest Day in Baseball: As Told to John P. Carmichael and Other Noted Sportswriters, by John P. Carmichael et al, and
Baseball As I Have Known It, by Fred Lieb.
Aethlon 14, 2 (Spring 1997).
Matty: An American Hero, by Ray Robinson.
Aethlon 11, 2 (Spring 1994).
Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England, by Donna B. Hamilton.
CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 23, 2 (Winter 1994).
The Outfielder (novel), by H. R. Coursen.
Aethlon 11, 1 (Fall 1993).
Character; Acting and Being on the Pre-Modern Stage, by Edward Burns.
CLIO, 20, 3 (Spring 1991).
Saint Augustine's Meter and George Herbert's Will, by William H. Pahlka.
George Herbert Journal 12, 1 (Fall 1988).
Erotic Love in Literature, by Donald Furber and Anne Callahan.
Cahiers Élisabethains, 27 (April 1985).
The Novels of World War I: An Annotated Bibliography, by Philip E. Hager and Desmond Taylor.
Literary Research Newsletter 8, 1 (Winter 1983).
Measure for Measure: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, ed. Mark Eccles.
Literary Research Newsletter 6, 4 (Fall 1981).
Popular
Reviews
The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth, by Paul Delany. Commonweal 114, 22 (December 18, 1987).
Milton and the Martial Muse: Paradise Lost and European Traditions of War, by James A. Freeman. Commonweal 110, 16 (September 23, 1983).
Kipling, Auden & Co, by Randall Jarrell. Commonweal 108, 12 (June 19, 1981).
Birds of Winter (novel), by Theodore Vrettos. Commonweal 107, 20 (November 7, 1980).
The Generation of 1914, by Robert Wohl. Commonweal 107, 14 (August 1, 1980).
On Moral Fiction, by John Gardner. Worldview 22, 1-2 (January/February, 1979).
The Middle Parts of Fortune (novel), by Frederic Manning. The Wars (novel), by Timothy Findley. Commonweal 106, 1 (January 19, 1979).
The Dark Lady (novel), by Louis Auchincloss. Commonweal 105, 20 (October 13, 1978).
Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary, by K. M. Elisabeth Murray. A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, by Eric Partridge. Commonweal 105, 2 (January 20, 1978).
War Books: A Study in Historical Criticism, by Jean Norton Cru. Commonweal 104, 25 (December 9, 1977).
The Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussell. Cross Currents 25, 4 (Winter 1976).
Modern Enemies (novel), by Julius Horwitz. Commonweal 103, 15 (July 16, 1976).
William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, by S. Schoenbaum. Commonweal 103, 8 (April 9, 1976).
The Worlds of Washington Irving, 1783-1859, ed. Andrew B. Myers. The Knickerbocker Tradition: Washington Irving's New York, ed. Andrew B. Myers. Six Presidents from the Empire State, ed. Harry J. Sievers, S.J. Commonweal 102, 17 (November 7, 1975).
The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, ed. James Sutherland. Commonweal 102, 16 (October 24, 1975).
Thieves of Fire, by Denis Donoghue. Commonweal 102, 7 (June 20, 1975).
The Reverent Discipline: Essays in Literary Criticism and Culture, by George A. Panichas. Commonweal 101, 13 (January 31, 1975).
Lautréamont, by Wallace Fowlie. Commonweal 101, 5 (November 1, 1974).
Naked is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, by Samuel Rosenberg. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer. Commonweal 101, 4 (October 25, 1974).
Journey to Upolu: Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian Rebel, by Edward Rice. Commonweal 101, 1 (October 4, 1974).
Busy Being Born, by Todd Gitlin. Commonweal 100, 20 (September 6, 1974).
Crossings (novel), by Earl Rovit. Commonweal 100, 17 (July 26, 1974).
Cervantes, by Richard L. Predmore. Commonweal 100, 11 (May 17, 1974).
Toward the 21st Century: Education for a Changing World, by Edwin O. Reischauer. Commonweal 100, 7 (April 19, 1974).
American and English Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, by Nicolaus Mills. Commonweal 99, 19 (February 15, 1974).
The Labyrinthine Ways of Graham Greene, by Francis L. Kunkel. Commonweal 99, 16 (January 25, 1974).
Recovery (novel), by John Berryman. Commonweal 99, 13 (December 28, 1973).
The Devil Tree (novel), by Jerzy Kosinski. Commonweal 99, 5 (November 2, 1973).
The Hookmen (novel), by Antoni Gronowicz. Commonweal 99, 1 (October 3, 1973).
A Literary Guide to Ireland, by Susan and Thomas Cahill. Commonweal 98, 17 (July 27, 1973).
Toward a New Earth, by John R. May. Commonweal 98, 11 (May 18, 1973).
The Stranger in Shakespeare, by Leslie A. Fiedler. Commonweal 98, 10 (May 11, 1973).
The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement, by A. L. Rowse. Commonweal 98, 8 (April 27, 1973).
Literature in Revolution, ed. George Abbott White and Charles Newman. Commonweal 97, 18. (February 9, 1973).
The Poetic Jesus, by Andrew Young. The Harper Book of Christian Poetry, ed. Anthony S. Mercatante. Commonweal 97, 14 (January 12, 1973).
Travels in Nihilon (novel), by Alan Sillitoe. Commonweal 97, 11 (December 15, 1972).
The Western Coast (novel), by Paula Fox. Commonweal 97, 9 (December 1, 1972).
A Stubborn Case (novel), by Robert Frankel. Commonweal 97, 6 (November 10, 1972).
The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, by Diane Wakowski. The East Side Scene: American Poetry, 1960-1965, ed. Allen De Loach. Commonweal 97, 5 (November 3, 1972).
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays, by Frank Kermode. Commonweal 96, 4 (March 31, 1972).
Love in the Ruins (novel), by Walker Percy. Commonweal 95, 5 (October 29, 1971).
Invited
Lectures
"Hamlet and the Quick Fire of Youth," Manhattan College, May 2005. Plenary address at 2005 meeting of Our Mutual Estate, The New York City Association of Assistant Principals, Supervision: English in conjunction with Manhattan College.
"When a Kiss isn't Just a Kiss: Thoughts on Osculation in Shakespeare." Plenary address at West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association (WVSRA) Annual Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, April 2004.
"The Plays Within Hamlet," Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Va, Fall 2000.
"Titus's Leg: Twelfth Night and the Body," Shakespeare and Sexuality Conference, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 1994.
"Falstaff the Private Man," Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, April 1992.
"Dismemberment in Shakespeare: Othello and Twelfth Night," Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio, March 1989.
Conference
Papers
"King Lear: An Alter Ego and an Ego Altered." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, University of Wyoming, Jackson, Wyoming, June 2005.
" ‘The King's Friend,' or Who Needs Enemies." 20th Annual Meeting, Medieval Association of the Midwest, Northern Michigan University, September 2004.
"Choice in The Merchant of Venice." The 14th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, March 2004.
"A Shakespearean Geography Lesson." Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Kent State University Stark Campus, November 2002.
"The Shakespearean Minefield and the Silence of the Lambs." The Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington, Somerset, UK, July 2002.
"Shakespeare's African Queens." The 13th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 2002.
" ‘Dost thou prate, rogue?' Languages of Men and Women in Othello." Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Kansas City, November 2000.
"Birth Order of Children in King Lear." The 12th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, March 2000.
" ‘Who's there?': The First Words of Hamlet." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference (WVSRA), Davis and Elkins College, April 1999.
"Beauty and Betrayal in the Decameron." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Montana State University, Bozeman, June 1998.
"Yorick among Shakespeare's Talking Heads." The 11th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 1998.
"Hamlet's Last Words." WVSRA Conference, Marshall University, March 1997.
"From Agincourt to Bastogne: George S. Patton and the Rhetoric of Saint Crispin's Day." Conference on World War II: A Dual Perspective, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, May 1996.
"Marvell's Mower and Keats's Knight: Toward a Comparative Poetics." 10th Biennial Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 1996.
"Revising History in Shakespeare's Henry IV." Central Renaissance Conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, April 1995.
"Imogen's Imagin': Speculations on Two Scenes in Cymbeline." Shakespeare Association of America, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1995.
"The Ornaments of Renaissance Poetry." The 9th New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 1994.
" ‘The booke materially and of it selfe': Metonymy as History." SAA, Annual Meeting, Kansas City, April 1992.
"Falstaff and the Construction of Private Life." 26th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1991.
"Imogen's Dream: A Reading of Cymbeline 2.2." The Seventh Citadel Conference on Literature: The Poetry, Drama, and Prose of the Middle Ages. Charleston, SC, February-March 1991.
"Mangled Matters in Othello." The Shakespeare Association of America. Philadelphia, 1990.
"Voyeurism and Aposiopesis in Renaissance Poetry." The 7th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 1990.
"The Limits of Representation in Much Ado about Nothing." The Sixth Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, March 1988.
"Deconstructing A Midsummer Night's Dream." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, New York, December 1986.
Scholarly Organizations
- The Renaissance Society of America
- The Shakespeare Association of America
- Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Courses Taught/Teaching:
- ENGL 110: College Writing
- ENGL 240: Creative Writing : Fiction
- ENGL 329: Shakespeare I
- ENGL 330: Shakespeare II
- ENGL 343: Literature of the Renaissance and Enlightenment
- ENGL 347: Literature and War
- ENGL 370: Milton
- LLRN 102: Classical Origins of Western Culture
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