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English Department
Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400

Benedict Robinson

Associate Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001; Renaissance poetry and drama; Shakespeare; Milton; literary theory. Undergraduate Program Director.

Humanities 2076/2093 MW 2:30 / M 7-8 pm

Courses:

Fall 2009
  • Shakespeare Major Works (EGL 243)
  • Milton (EGL 342)

Selected Publications

Books:
  • Islam and Early Modern English Literature:  The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton (Palgrave, 2007). 
  • Ed., with Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania, Textual Conversations in the Renaissance:  Ethics, Authors, Technologies (Ashgate, 2006).
  • Ed., Titus Andronicus (Barnes and Noble, 2009) 
  • Ed., Henry V (Barnes and Noble, 2008). 

Articles:

  • “The ‘Turks,’ Caroline Politics, and Philip Massinger’s The Renegado,” in Localizing Caroline Drama, ed. Alan Farmer and Adam Zucker (Palgrave, 2006), pp. 213-37.
  • "The 'Secret Faith' of Spenser's Saracens," Spenser Studies 17 (2003): 37-73.
  • "Thomas Heywood and the Cultural Politics of Play Collections." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Spring 2002).
  • "John Foxe and the Anglo-Saxons." John Foxe and His World, ed. Christopher Highley and John N. King (Ashgate Press, 2002).
  • "'Darke speech': Matthew Parker and the Reforming of History." Sixteenth Century Journal 29:4 (Winter 1998): 1061-83.
  • “Thomas Heywood,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Kastan. 
  • “Returning to Egypt:  The ‘Jew,’ the ‘Turk,’ and the English Republic,” in Milton and the Jews, ed. Douglas A. Brooks ( Cambridge University Press, under contract).
  • “‘Green Seraglios’:  Tulips, Turbans, and the Global Market in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Mower Against Gardens.’”  Forthcoming in Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies.






 







Islam and Early Modern English Literature

textual conversations