George Geckle

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Office: Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2286
geckleg@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1965

Specialization Areas

• Renaissance Literature

Recent Courses

• Shakespeare
• Renaissance Drama

Current Research Project(s)

My research area is English Renaissance drama, particularly Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I am currently working on a book on Shakespeare and Marlowe: Ideology, Text, and Performance. I publish reviews of Royal Shakespeare Company (England) productions frequently in Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship.<

Publications

"Measure for Measure": Shakespeare: The Critiical Tradition (London and New York: The Athlone Press, 2001)
Twentieth Century Interpretations of “Measure for Measure”;
John Marston’s Drama: Themes, Images, Sources;
“Tamburlaine” and
“Edward II”: Text and Performance.