Office Location: 109 D
Office Phone: (919) 660-3350
Email Address: sarah.beckwith@duke.edu

Teaching (Spring, 2012):

• English 173s.04, Medieval & early modern drama Synopsis

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Office Hours:

Spring 2012
Tuesdays 10:00am - 12:00pm

Education:

Ph.D., King's College, London University

Specialties:

Medieval Literature
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature

Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. Her book, Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing was published by Routledge in 1993. Her book, Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi was published by the University of Chicago Press in the summer of 2001. Her book, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness, will be published by Cornell University Press in April, 2011. She is currently working on a book about Shakespearean tragedy and about philosophy's love affair with the genre of tragedy.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi. U of Chicago P, 2001, Paperback ed. 2003.
2.  Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. Routledge, 1996.
3.  JMEMS.  Jan. 2003
4. with D. Aers, eds.. Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern. JMEMS, special issue 31.3 (Fall, 2001).
5.  The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600. JMEMS, special issue 29.1 (Winter, 1999).
6.  Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Modern Theology 15.2 (Mar. 1999). (based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation)
7. "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion." JMEMS  (Jan. 2003)  8000 words
8. "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. D. Aers, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer.  2000.