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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| 21 | A Short Literary History of Vampires | You've heard of Twilight. You may have read Twilight. Try as you might, you can't… | Kate O'Connor |
| 22 | Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' | This essay is the first of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr.… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 23 | Who is Aphra Behn? | So who is Aphra Behn? And what does attempting to answer that question reveal about us?… |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 24 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres | Elizabethan and Jacobean London contained a myriad of playhouses, indoors and outdoors. What… | Kate O'Connor |
| 25 | Aphra Behn: A "Life dedicated to Pleasure and Poetry" | … |
Kate O'Connor |
| 26 | Thomas Middleton: No Wit, No Help like a Playwright's | During his career Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) produced a pretty spectacular canon of plays:… | Kate O'Connor |
| 27 | Frances Burney: the "Mother of English Fiction" | By Kate O'Connor Before there was Jane… | Kate O'Connor |
| 28 | Ben Jonson: Renaissance Playwright, Renaissance Man | Ben Jonson 1572-1637) was an early modern playwright whose popularity rivaled that of Shakespeare… | Kate O'Connor |
| 29 | Who Killed Christopher Marlowe (and Why)? | Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) is best-known as being the playwright who created … | Kate O'Connor |
| 30 | Thomas Dekker | … |
Kate O'Connor |