Tom Clayton
Regents Professor
Ph.D. English Literature, Oxford University, 1960
300 Folwell Hall
(612) 626-7565
tsc@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English; Classical Civilization Program
Areas of Expertise
English; seventeenth-century literature; Shakespeare; drama; classical civilization; classical studies
Selected Publications
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, Spain, 2001. Ed. Tom Clayton, Susan Brock, and Vicente Forés. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.
The “Hamlet” First Published (Q1, 1603): Origins, Form, Intertextualities. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.
“Meter and Meaning in Shakespeare: A Modest Suggestion.” Rev. Summer 2007 for a festschrift for Stanley Stewart.
“Politics, Ethics, and Æsthetics in and out of Three Tragedies by Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Coriolanus.” Politics and/in Æsthetics. Ed. Litsa Trayiannoudi.Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, 2007.
“’At Bottom a Criticism of Life’: Suckling and the Poetry of Low Seriousness.” Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben. Ed. Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Rpt. Galenet: DISCovering Authors Modules, 1999.
“’So quick bright things come to confusion’; or, What Else Was A Midsummer Night’s Dream About?” Shakespeare, Text and Theater: Essays in Honor of Jay L. Halio. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney and Lois Potter. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
“Sir John Suckling.” New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Macbeth’s ‘Yet I will try the last’ What? (Macbeth V. viii. 32).” Notes and Queries 247.4 (December 1997).
“’...lucharé hasta el final.’ ¿el qué?’(Macbeth V. viii. 32).” En Torno Shakespeare 6 (Web)/Contrastes 13 (print, 2001).
“On Editing and Reviewing Selected Collections." Tom Clayton and Susan Brock. Shakespeare Newsletter 55.2 (Summer 2005).Graduate Courses
Introduction to Advanced Literary Study
Shakespeare Seminar
Proseminar in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Athol Fugard: The Dramatic Conscience of White South Africa
Undergraduate Courses
Great Books: Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy
Introduction to Shakespeare
Modern and Contemporary British Drama
Classics of Literary Criticism
Milton
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture
Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry
Jacobean and Caroline Poetry
The Poetry of George Herbert and Andrew Marvell