Education
B.A. English & History (McMaster); M.A. English literature (Rice); Ph.D. Dramatic Literature (Northwestern) ; M.T.S. Theological Studies (McMaster); Th.M. Church History, Historical Theology (Toronto) Work Shared in CORE
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Other Publications
Articles
“Thomas Nabbes’s Hannibal and Scipio: Sources and Theme,” Studies in English Literature 11 (1971): 327-43.
“Morality and Masque: The Context for Thomas Nabbes’s Microcosmus,” English Studies 53 (1972): 328–34.
“A Reading of ‘The Sleepers’,” Walt Whitman Review 18 (1972): 17-28.
“Comparative Theatre Historiography, Essays in Theatre 1 (1983): 64-72.
“Theatre History as an Academic Discipline,” in Interpreting the Theatrical Past, ed. Thomas Postlewait and Bruce A. McConachie (University of Iowa Press, 1989): 1-18.
“Issues in Theatre Historiography,” Nordic Theatre Studies: Special International Issue (1990): 21-36.
“Opsis as a Term in Dramatic Theory,” Assaph: Studies in Theatre no.6 (1990): 89-102.
“Historicizing the Sixteenth-Century Playhouse,” in Theatre Symposium 4: Theatrical Spaces and Dramatic Places (University of Alabama Press, 1996): 39-50.
“The Aristotelian Theatrical Paradigm as Cultural-Historical Construct,” Theatre Research International 22, Supplemental Issue (1997): 38-47.
“Industry or Mere Accident: The Making of a Theatrical Event,” Journal of Theatre and Drama 3 (1997): 103-13.
“The Ritual and Performative Basis of Greek Combat Sport and Hoplite Battle,” Theatre Annual 50 (1997): 72-78.
“The Field of Medieval Theatre,” Humanitas Taiwanica 62 (2005):71-97.
“Richard Hooker on the Eucharist: A Commentary on the Laws V.67,” Anglican Theological Review 89 (2007): 421-42.
Books
Ancient and Medieval Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1984).
Renaissance Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1984).
Neoclassical Theatre:A Historiographical Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1987).
A Companion to the Medieval Theatre (Greenwood Press, 1989).
Advisory Editor and Contributor
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, 2 vols., ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2003).
The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2010).