Shakespeare

Full synopses of Shakespeare's plays with updated critical readings.

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Dr. Rory Loughnane: Dr. Rory Loughnane is the Visiting Asst. Professor of Early Modern Literature at Syracuse University. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Trinity College Dublin in June 2009 on the influence of the ars memorativae in early modern drama. He completed two short-term postdoctoral fellowships before being awarded an IRCHSS research fellow (2010-11). Dr. Loughnane is currently co-editing 'Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613' (Cambridge UP, forthcoming) with Andrew Power (TCD) and 'Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers' (Ashgate, forthcoming) with Willy Maley (Glasgow), and completing a monograph entitled 'Staging Memory: Recovering the Author in Early Modern Drama'. He is a contributing a chapter entitled 'The Medieval Inheritance' to 'The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Tragedies', eds. Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk, and is a contributing editor to 'The Lost Plays Database'. He is currently working on a new 'Complete Works of Cyril Tourneur' and an anthology of English writing on Ireland (1500-1700). He is the co-editor of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' on Caroline Drama (2014).