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| Sarah Beckwith, Katherine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor of English
 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.
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 302A Allen, Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708 | | Email Address: |   | | Division: | Graduate, Undergraduate | Teaching (Fall 2025):
- ENGLISH 235.01, SHAKESPEARE
Synopsis
- Allen 326, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- (also cross-listed as MEDREN 330.01, THEATRST 222.01)
- ENGLISH 890S.02, SPECIAL TOPICS SEMINAR
Synopsis
- Allen 317, M 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
- Office Hours:
- Spring '25 Semester:
On Leave
- Education:
| Ph.D. | King's College London (United Kingdom) | 1992 |
| M.A. | University of Oxford (United Kingdom) | 1982 |
| B.A. with Honors | Oxford University | 1981 |
| B.A. | University of Oxford (United Kingdom) | 1981 |
- Specialties:
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Medieval Literature
Dramatic Literature
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Medieval Literature, Shakespeare, Ordinary Language Philosophy
Current projects:
Shakespeare's Late Tragedies, The Book of Second Chances, Book on Theatre and 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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Medieval Literature & Culture
Early modern British Literature and Culture
Theatre History
Religious Studies
Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Jill Sirko,
- George Vahamikos,
- George Vahamikos
- Representative Publications
(More 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)
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