Kate O'Connor
Academic Position:
Graduate
Research Interests:
Early Modern Drama 1500-1700
Kate O'Connor is currently pursuing her M.St. in English Literature 1550-1700 at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She focuses on early modern drama, and her dissertation deals with stage devils' use of legal strategies. In 2009 she co-founded the student theatre production company Barbarian Productions, with whom she directed a production of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Kate holds a BA in English from Stanford University in English with a minor in Political Science. As an undergraduate, she worked as the research assistant to Professor David Riggs and as a Literary Intern for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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| 11 | Economic and Social Literary Criticism | This essay offers suggestions for how material on the Great Writers Inspire site can be used as… | Kate O'Connor |
| 12 | Questions of Genre | This essay offers suggestions for how material on the Great Writers Inspire site can be used as a… | Kate O'Connor |
| 13 | The Importance of Being Wilde | "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" Oscar Wilde… | Kate O'Connor |
| 14 | Aphra Behn | Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a bold, salacious, and pioneering individual. If Frances Burney made… | Kate O'Connor |
| 15 | Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' | … |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 16 | Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture | This essay is the last of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr. Abigail… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 17 | Aphra Behn and Political Culture | This essay is the third of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr. Abigail… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 18 | Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre | This essay is the second of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr. Abigail… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 19 | The Anonymous Jane Austen | Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous authors in the western canon (possibly helped… | Kate O'Connor |
| 20 | Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare | Since the release of the film 'Anonymous' in 2011, the odds have increased dramatically of being… | Kate O'Connor |