Lawrence F. Rhu

Professor
Graduate Director
M.A.T. Advisor

Office: 100/225 Humanities Office Building

(803) 777-5063 or 0114
rhul@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987

Specialization Areas

• Renaissance (English and Continental),
• Shakespeare

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 712  Shakespeare's Tragedies

Current Research Project(s)

Riverside edition of The Winter’s Tale (under contract, due 6/04).

Publications

Books

Stanley Cavell's American Dream Shakespeare Philosophy and Hollywood Movies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006).

The Genesis of Tasso's Narrative Theory: Translations of the Early Poetics and a Comparative Study of Their Significance (Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 1993).

Book Chapters and Refereed Articles

"Paradise Lost as Biblical Interpretation," The Idea of Biblical Interpretation, eds. H. Najman et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 485-512.

"Continental Influences," The Blackwell Companion to Renaissance English Drama, ed. Arthur Kinney (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 433-45.

"King Lear in Their Time: On Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare," Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare, eds. C. Desmet and R. Sawyer (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 227-46.

"Stanley Cavell: An American Philosopher at the Movies," DoubleTake 7.2 (Spring 2001), 115-119.

"Shakespeare's Ariostan Skepticism," Shakespeare Yearbook X (1999), 359-73.

Chi non conosce Torquato Tasso? Genere e rinomanza nella Faerie Queene VI," Torquato Tasso e la civiltà estense ed. G. Venturi
(Ferrara, 1999), 1:163-173.

"Romancing the Pope: Tasso's Narrative Theory and Milton's Demonization of a Genre" in "All in All": Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective
eds. C. W. Durham and K. P. McColgan (Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna UP, 1999), 128-37.

"Renewing the Renaissance and Its Lit.," The World and I 13.12 (1998), 323-37.

"Romanzare sul Papa: La teoria narrativa del Tasso e la demonizzazione miltoniana di un genere," in Torquato Tasso e l'Europa ed. Daniele Rota
(Bergamo: Centro Studi Tassiani, 1996), 49-59.

"Ariosto Moralisé: Political Decorum in Spenser's Imitations of Orlando furioso," Annali d'italianistica 12 (1994), 143-57.

"Romancing the Word: Italian Echoes and English Contexts in the Errour Episode," Spenser Studies XI (1994), 101-109.

"Agons of Interpretation: Ariostan Source and Elizabethan Meaning in Spenser, Harington, & Shakespeare," Ren. Drama n.s. 24 (1993), 171-88.

"Romancing Eliza: The Political Decorum of Ariostan Imitation in The Faerie Queene," Renaissance Papers 1993, 31-39.

"Young Tasso's Reckoning with the Orlando furioso" in Reconsidering the Renaissance, ed. M. di Cesare (Binghamton: MRTS, 1992), 271-86.

"After the Middle Ages: Prophetic Authority and Human Fallibility in Renaissance Epic" in Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary
Tradition, ed. James Kugel (Cornell UP, 1990), 163-84, 244-6.

"From Aristotle to Allegory: Young Tasso's Evolving Vision of the Gerusalemme liberata," Italica 65.2 (Summer, 1988), 111-30.

"Tasso's First Discourse on the Art of Poetry as a Guide to the Gerusalemme liberata," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
Association 7 (1986), 65-81.