Peter Seary

Professor Emeritus
pseary@chass.utoronto.ca

Areas of Interest

  • The rise of scholarship in the eighteenth century devoted to English literature, especially Shakespeare.

Teaching

  • Eighteenth-century literature
  • Shakespeare
  • Poetry
  • Survey courses

Publications

"Lewis Theobald" and "Styan Thirlby" for The New DNB.

Reviews in Modern Philology and The Scriblerian.

"Lewis Theobald, Edmond Malone, and Others" in Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Joanna Gondris (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998).

"The Shakespeare Industry" in Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gerald Newman, Peter Tasch, et al. (New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997).

Lewis Theobald and the Editing of Shakespeare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).