Home > Faculty : Prof Tom Clayton
Specialties
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English
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seventeenth-century literature
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Shakespeare
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drama
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classical civilization
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classical studies
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: English Literature, Oxford University, 1960.
Publications
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“Meter and Meaning in Shakespeare: A Modest Suggestion.” . Clayton, Tom, Author, 2007.
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"Politics, Ethics, and Æsthetics in and out of Three Tragedies by Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Coriolanus.": Clayton, Tom, Aristotle University, 2007.
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“On Editing and Reviewing Selected Collections.". Clayton, Tom, Co-Author, 2005.
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“Sir John Suckling.”: Clayton, Tom, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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“’...lucharé hasta el final.’ ¿el qué?’(Macbeth V. viii. 32).” En Torno Shakespeare 6 (Web)/Contrastes 13 (print, 2001).
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“’So quick bright things come to confusion’; or, What Else Was A Midsummer Night’s Dream About"?: Clayton, Tom, University of Delaware Press, 1999.
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“Macbeth’s ‘Yet I will try the last’ What?” . Clayton, Tom, Author, 1997.
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The "Hamlet" First Published (Q1.1603): Origins. Forms, Intertextualities. Clayton, Tom, Universiy of Delaware Press, Author, 1992.
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“’At Bottom a Criticism of Life’: Suckling and the Poetry of Low Seriousness.” Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben.: Clayton, Tom, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.
Awards
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Regents Professor, 1999
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Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education, 1999
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McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1994 - 1997
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Endowment for the Humanities: Co-director, Summer Seminar on Shakespear, Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1993
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Scholor of the College of Liberal Arts, 1989 - 1992
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Horace T. Morse-Amoco Award fo rOutstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1982
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Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978
Courses Taught
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Introduction to Advanced Literary Study
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Shakespeare Seminar
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Proseminar in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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Athol Fugard: The Dramatic Conscience of White South Africa
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Great Books: Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy
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Introduction to Shakespeare
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Modern and Contemporary British Drama
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Classics of Literary Criticism
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Milton
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Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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Early Modern Literature and Culture
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Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry
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Jacobean and Caroline Poetry
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The Poetry of George Herbert and Andrew Marvell
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