Robert Henke
Titles
Chair, Performing Arts Department
Titles
Professor, Comparative Literature; Performing Arts (Drama)
Robert Henke
Titles
Chair, Performing Arts Department
Titles
Professor, Comparative Literature; Performing Arts (Drama) Office Contact Information
Degree
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Phone
(314) 935-9336
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Research specialization
transnational early modern theater (Italian and English); poverty and charity in early modern culture and theater; philosophy and literature
Publications
Books
Ed., with Eric Nicholson. Transnational and Transcultural Exchange in Early Modern Drama: Theater Crossing Borders. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate P, 2008. A collection of transnational and comparative essays on early modern drama.
Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte. Cambridge UP, 2002. Examines the interplay between oral and literary cultures in the commedia dell'arte.
Articles
“Representations of Poverty in the Commedia dell’Arte.” Theatre Survey (2008).
“Comparing Poverty: The Fictions of the Poor in Ruzante and Shakespeare.” Comparative Drama 41:2 (2007): 193-217.
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