Lucas Simpson

PhD Candidate
lucas.simpson@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Areas of Interest

  • Renaissance Literature
  • Shakespeare
  • Milton

Biography

Lucas Simpson is a PhD student in English at the University of Toronto. His SSHRC-funded dissertation studies the dramatic and poetic representation of sacrifice as it pertains to both religious ritual and tyrannicide.

List of Pulications

“Prayer Book Communion and The Spanish Tragedy.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 45.1, 2022 .

"Contracted Time: Apocalypse and Identity in The Merchant of Venice." Shakespeare Quarterly 75.4, 2024 (forthcoming).