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Peter G. Platt
Professor of English
Peter G. Platt, professor of English, joined the Barnard faculty in 1994. In addition to his teaching duties for the English department, Professor Platt is the department’s chair. He is also affiliated with—and for many years was the chair of—Barnard's Medieval and Renaissance Studies program.
Professor Platt teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, Renaissance studies, and literary criticism and theory.
The author of Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox and Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous, he also edited Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture. He has written articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetics, and rhetoric. His edition of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale will be published in 2009.
Selected Publications
The Winter's Tale, editor (New Providence, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, forthcoming 2009)
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox (Ashgate, 2009)
Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture, editor (Newark,Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1999)
Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1997)212.854.2112
EDUCATION:
B.A., Yale University
M.A., Middlebury College
D.Phil., Oxford University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Shakespeare
Renaissance studies
Literary criticism and theory