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Paul Yachnin McGill University |
| Web Page: | http://https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/paul-yachnin |
| List Affiliations: | None |
| Interests: | Literature |
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Bio: Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University. He directed the Making Publics (MaPs) Project (2005-10) and Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies (2013-18). He is Past President of the Shakespeare Association of America and Director of the McGill Shakespeare and Performance Research Team. Among his publications are the books, Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value; and The Culture of Playgoing in Early Modern England: A Collaborative Debate (with Anthony Dawson); co-editions of Shakespeare’s Richard II and The Tempest; and four co-edited books, including Shakespeare and Character and Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, Things, Forms of Knowledge (with Bronwen Wilson). He has published a series of essays on animality and early modern theatre. With Desmond Manderson, he published another series of essays on law and literature. His book-in-progress is Making Theatrical Publics in Shakespeare’s England. His ideas about the social life of art, and those of his MaPs collaborators, were featured on the CBC Radio IDEAS series, “The Origins of the Modern Public.” |
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