Research Interests for Sarah Beckwith
Research Interests: Medieval Literature, Shakespeare, Ordinary Language Philosophy
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.
- Current projects:
- Shakespeare's Late Tragedies
- The Book of Second Chances
- Book on Theatre and Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Areas of Interest:
- Medieval Literature & Culture
Early modern British Literature and Culture
Theatre History
Religious Studies
Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Representative Publications
- Beckwith, S, Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi
(2001), University of Chicago Press
- Beckwith, S, Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings
(1996), Routledge
- Beckwith, S, Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern, edited by Aers, D; Beckwith, S,
JMEMS, vol. 31 no. 3
(Fall, 2001)
- Beckwith, S, The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600, edited by Beckwith, S,
JMEMS, vol. 29 no. 1
(Winter, 1999)
- S Beckwith, Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by G. Jones and J. Buckley,
Directions in Modern Theology, vol. 15 no. 2
(March, 1999), Blackwell [abs]
- Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion,
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(Jan. 2003) (8000 words.) [abs]
- Beckwith, S, Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York,
in Festschrift for Derek Pearsall, edited by Aers, D; Woodbridge, B; Brewer,
(2000)