MacFaul, Dr Tom

Job Title: Fellow in English and Departmental Lecturer
College: Merton
Period/ Subject: Renaissance to Romanticism

Email address: thomas.macfaul@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Renaissance poetry and drama.

Teaching Areas:

1509-1832; American literature; Shakespeare.

Recent Publications:

Books

Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2012).

Edition

Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and Others (Penguin Classics, 2011), edited with Amanda Holton.

Essays in Journals and Books

'The Childish Love of Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville,' Sidney Journal 24 (2006).

'Donne’s “The Sunne Rising" and Spenser's "Epithalamion" ', Notes and Queries (2007).

' "A Kingdom with my Friend": Favourites in Shakespeare', in Literary Milieux, ed. Richard A. McCabe and David Womersley (University of Delaware Press, 2008).

'Friendship in Sidney's Arcadias', Studies in English Literature 49 (2009).

 ' "Ruth" in Surrey's "Windsor Elegy",' Notes and Queries (2009), with Amanda Holton.

'The Butterfly, the Fart, and the Dwarf: The Origins of the English Micro-Epic,' Connotations 17 (2007/8).

'A Theatre for Worldlings', in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, ed. Richard A. McCabe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

'The Changing Meaning of Love-Triangle Plots in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama,' Literature and History 20 (2011).

Other Information:

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