Professor John Pitcher
Biography
As a Tutorial Fellow at 好色先生TV鈥檚 I taught most parts of the English undergraduate degree, Course I (from Old English literature through to Wordsworth, and some modern writing), and several parts of Course II (specialist medieval topics and some philology). I now concentrate on early modern poetry, drama and fiction, especially Shakespeare and the Elizabethans.聽
Research Interests
I study the literature and history of early modern British elite and middling sort society, especially the poetry, drama and arts of Elizabethan and Jacobean court culture, including Shakespeare. I continue to work on volumes of my multi-volume critical edition of the poet and historian Samuel Daniel (1562/63鈥1619). My latest publication, an offshoot of editing Daniel, will appear in Textual Cultures in 2023: 鈥楧aniel, Florio, and the Stationers: the publication of Astrophel and Stella and An Apologie for Poetrie鈥. Future essays will include 鈥楲ady Penelope Rich in Essex House in 1590鈥, 鈥楧aniel, Spenser and Cadiz鈥, and 鈥楢rmida鈥檚 Siren: 鈥渢hat鈥檚 lawful which doth please鈥 鈥.