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Dr. Robert Farquhar Darcy

  • English, Professor

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rdarcy@unomaha.edu
office:
ASH  189J

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General Information

Teaching Interests

Renaissance Literature / Shakespeare / Critical Theory / History of Ideas / History of Print

Education

Ph D, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, English, 2003

BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT, English, 1993

Additional Information

Publications

"Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England" book cover features a man looking down. Book

Darcy, Robert. Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters 

“Facial Recognition and Posthuman Technologies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Multicultural Shakespeare, 24 (2021): 149-63.

 “Puppets, Sexlessness, and the Dumbfounding of Male Epistemology in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 60.2 (2020): 365-86.

 “Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 26 (2019): 91-102.

 “False Muscle Memory in Marlowe and Nashe.” Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection. Ed. John Garrison and Kyle Pivetti. New York: Routledge, 2016. 112-19.

 “The Anticipatory Premise of History in the Reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress. Ed. Martin Procházka et al. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2013. 51-59.

 “Marlowe and Marston’s Cursus.” Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Sarah K. Scott and M. L. Stapleton. Cornwall: Ashgate, 2010. 149-58.

 “Shakespeare’s Empty Plot: The Epicenotaph in Timon of Athens.” Renaissance Drama, n.s. 33 (2004): 159-79.

 “Freeing Daughters on Open Markets: The Incest Clause in The Merchant of Venice.” Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. Ed. Linda Woodbridge. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 189-200.

 “‘Under My Hands . . . a Double Duty’: Printing and Pressing Marlowe’s Hero and Leander.” JEMCS: The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2.2 (2002): 26-56.

Additional Information

Publications

"Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England" book cover features a man looking down. Book

Darcy, Robert. Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters 

“Facial Recognition and Posthuman Technologies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Multicultural Shakespeare, 24 (2021): 149-63.

 “Puppets, Sexlessness, and the Dumbfounding of Male Epistemology in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 60.2 (2020): 365-86.

 “Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 26 (2019): 91-102.

 “False Muscle Memory in Marlowe and Nashe.” Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection. Ed. John Garrison and Kyle Pivetti. New York: Routledge, 2016. 112-19.

 “The Anticipatory Premise of History in the Reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress. Ed. Martin Procházka et al. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2013. 51-59.

 “Marlowe and Marston’s Cursus.” Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Sarah K. Scott and M. L. Stapleton. Cornwall: Ashgate, 2010. 149-58.

 “Shakespeare’s Empty Plot: The Epicenotaph in Timon of Athens.” Renaissance Drama, n.s. 33 (2004): 159-79.

 “Freeing Daughters on Open Markets: The Incest Clause in The Merchant of Venice.” Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. Ed. Linda Woodbridge. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 189-200.

 “‘Under My Hands . . . a Double Duty’: Printing and Pressing Marlowe’s Hero and Leander.” JEMCS: The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2.2 (2002): 26-56.

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