Jill L. Levenson

Jill L. Levenson

First Name: 
Jill L.
Last Name: 
Levenson
Title: 
Graduate Faculty; Professor Emeritus
Phone : 
416-978-3055
Office Location : 
Gerald Larkin Building, Room 334, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 1H8
Education: 
BA, Queen's University
MA, Harvard University
PhD, Harvard University

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Renaissance Dramatic
  • Modern Dramatic

Publications

The Oxford edition of Romeo and Juliet (2000), and the introduction for the Malone Society edition of the first Quarto (2000).

Recent essays on Romeo and Juliet: codes of violence (1995), rhetoric (1996), teaching the play through performance (1999), multiple texts (2000), narrative strategies (2000).

Papers on editing: after poststructuralism (1998) and with theatrical documents (1999).

In addition, the chapter on "Comedy" in the Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990);

Shakespeare in Performance: "Romeo and Juliet" (1987);

Essays on the original Romeo and Juliet narrative (1984) and on poetry in the play (1983).

On modern drama, essays on Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare Survey (1983) and in a Cambridge Companion volume on Stoppard (2001).

In 1998 edited a collection of essays, Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century, with Jonathan Bate and Dieter Mehl.

Current Research

With a Connaught fellowship, launched a book-length project on Shakespeare and modern drama for Oxford University Press. Also preparing a descriptive bibliography for Romeo and Juliet and Othello.

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Jill L. Levenson Graduate Faculty