Grist for the Mill:

Papers, Projects, and Positions

• English / Theatre Papers
• Theatrical Reviews
• Creative Writing

English / Theatre Papers

• Shakespeare's Sources:

  • "Instruction Versus Deception: from Rosalynde to As You Like It"
  • "Ephesian Effusions: The Comedy of Errors"
  • "Midsummer Madness, Dangerous Dreams: Shakespeare's Sources for A Midsummer Night's Dream"
  • "To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretation of Sources for Macbeth"
  • "'An Improbable Fiction': Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in Sources and Performance"

• Shakespeare's Plays:

  • "Lear's Lapse: Foreshadowings in King Lear I.i"
  • "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello"
  • "Derek Jacobi's Richard II: Ambiguities Answered"
  • "The BBC Twelfth Night: Relationships Revealed"

• Other Authors:

  • "'I am the Earth Mother': Pagan Elements in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
  • "Work on [Alan Ayckbourn's] Woman in Mind: A Discussion of Directing"
  • Character analysis of Jerome Watkins, the protagonist of Alan Ayckbourn's play Henceforward....
  • "Revelations Unto Clowns: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and The Last Analysis"
  • "Tempest-Tossed: Storm Imagery in Villette and Frankenstein"
  • "The Sublime Savage: [Robert Browning's] 'Caliban on Setebos'"
  • "'As good a murder as you'd ever want to see': Human Reduction in Georg Büchner's Woyzeck"
  • "The Yiftes of Fortune And of Nature [in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales]"
  • "'The Way of Illumination': Images of Defective Senses in T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party"
  • Class diary and scene diary for Dr. Dennis Huston's "Modern Drama in Text and Performance"
  • "Courage and Cowardice [in the plays of Henrik Ibsen]"
  • "Four Loves, No Loves: The Four Greek Loves in Ulysses"
  • "Arthurian Features in [C.S. Lewis'] That Hideous Strength"
  • "The Evolution of Merlin"
  • "Riches to Rags, Dreams to Dust: A Staging of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Penguin edition pp. 27-41"
  • "[Walker Percy's] Binx and Kate: Finder and Maker Reversed"

Theatrical Reviews

• Burn This by Lanford Wilson, at Main Street Theatre, for the Rice Thresher.
• Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson, at the Alley Theatre, for the Rice Thresher.
• Robert Wilson's press conference prior to his Alley production of When We Dead Awaken, for the Rice Thresher.
• Rain, Some Fish, No Elephants by Y York, at Main Street Theatre, for the Rice Thresher.
• Serious Money by Caryl Churchill, at Main Street Theatre, for the Rice Thresher.

Creative Writing

• "Trouble in Elysium," a science-fiction detective story I wrote freshman year in college.
• "Pressure," a story I wrote years later for an adolescent-literature course.
• "Daftness," a sonnet.
• "Electric Sonnet."
• "First Sonnet" to Jenn.
• "A Teacher's Sigh," written to some of my seventh-grade students at SCMS.
• My college roommate Jeff Cours played with Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse to produce his "Chepe Epic," reproduced here by permission.