Professor of English and Director, Honors in the Humanities Program. Stanford B.A., 1968; UC, Berkeley Ph.D., 1975.
Books:
Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English ReFormation ( Columbia University Press, 2002); The Rites of Knighthood: Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry (University of California Press, 1989).
Courses:
Shakespeare and Film
Current Project:
“Faith in Shakespeare” detailing the links between shifts in ideas of communion in Reformation theology, what Coleridge calls “poetic faith,” and the experience of performance in Shakespeare’s plays.