Kate O'Connor

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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'
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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