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 Sarah Beckwith
Katherine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor and Bass Fellow
Office Location: 302A Allen, Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: ott@duke.edu
Teaching (Fall, 2024):
- English 236s.01, Shakespeare: on nature
Synopsis
- Allen 318, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- English 290s-1.02, Sp top medieval/early mod lit
Synopsis
- Allen 318, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- Office Hours:
- Fall 2022 Semester:
Mondays between 1:00-3:00 pm and by appointment (315A Allen)
- Education:
- Ph.D., King's College London (United Kingdom)
M.A., University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
B.A. with Honors, Oxford University
B.A., University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Specialties:
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Medieval Literature
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
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Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval
religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. She is the author of
Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in
Medieval English Writing (London: Routledge, 1993, pbk 1996); Signifying God:
Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's
Play of Corpus Christi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pbk 2003), and Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011, pbk 2013).
She is currently working on a book about Shakespearean tragedy and about philosophy's love affair with the genre of tragedy and The Book of Second Chances, a book about versions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. She co-edited JMEMS for several years, and co-founded the book series Re-Formations with the University of Notre Dame Press and is the editor of numerous collections of essays and journals.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Beckwith, S. Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Beckwith, S. Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. Routledge, 1996.
- Beckwith, S. Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern. ed. Aers, D; Beckwith, S. JMEMS 31.3
(Fall, 2001).
- Beckwith, S. The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600. ed. Beckwith, S. JMEMS 29.1
(Winter, 1999).
- S Beckwith. "Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." Directions in Modern Theology Ed. G. Jones and J. Buckley. 15.2Blackwell,
(March, 1999)
[abs]
- "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(Jan. 2003)
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- Beckwith, S. "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. Aers, D; Woodbridge, B; Brewer,.
2000.
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