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Kate O'Connor
Kate O'Connor is currently pursuing her M.St. in English Literature 1550-1700 at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She focuses on early modern drama, and her dissertation deals with stage devils' use of legal strategies. In 2009 she co-founded the student theatre production company Barbarian Productions, with whom she directed a production of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Kate holds a BA in English from Stanford University in English with a minor in Political Science. As an undergraduate, she worked as the research assistant to Professor David Riggs and as a Literary Intern for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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| 1 | The language of Shakespeare |
Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student... |
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| 2 | Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director |
The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare... |
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| 1 | The Curious Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-... |
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| 2 | Lost Generation |
World War I, originally called the Great War, resulted in more than nine million deaths. The... |
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| 3 | English Renaissance Timeline: Some Historical and Cultural Dates |
This list offers an overview of some historical and cultural dates from the English Renaissance... |
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| 4 | Thomas Kyd: An English Tragedy |
Very little is known about the life of Renaissance playwright... |
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| 5 | Notions of Authorship |
This essay offers suggestions for how material on the Great Writers Inspire site can be used... |
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| 6 | What is Literature, and Why Does It Matter? |
With the latest financial crisis came budget cuts, and with budget cuts came questions - why... |
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| 7 | Approaching Political Literature |
This essay offers suggestions for how material on the Great Writers Inspire site can be used... |
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| 8 | Feminist Approaches to Literature |
This essay offers a very basic introduction to feminist literary theory, and a compendium of... |
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| 9 | Economic and Social Literary Criticism |
This essay offers suggestions for how material on the Great Writers Inspire site can be used... |
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| 10 | Questions of Genre |
This essay offers suggestions for how material on the Great Writers Inspire site can be used as... |
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| 11 | The Importance of Being Wilde |
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" ... |
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| 12 | Aphra Behn |
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a bold, salacious, and pioneering individual. If Frances Burney made... |
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| 13 | Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' |
This essay is the second of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by... |
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| 14 | Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture |
This essay is the last of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr.... |
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| 15 | Aphra Behn and Political Culture |
This essay is the third of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr.... |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 16 | Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre |
This essay is the second of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr.... |
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| 17 | The Anonymous Jane Austen |
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous authors in the western canon (possibly helped... |
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| 18 | Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare |
Since the release of the film 'Anonymous' in 2011, the odds have increased dramatically of being... |
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| 19 | A Short Literary History of Vampires |
You've heard of Twilight. You may have read Twilight. Try as you might, you... |
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| 20 | Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' |
This essay is the first of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr... |
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| 21 | Who is Aphra Behn? |
This essay is the first of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by... |
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| 22 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres |
Elizabethan and Jacobean London contained a myriad of playhouses, indoors and outdoors. What... |
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| 23 | Aphra Behn: A "Life dedicated to Pleasure and Poetry" |
Aphra Behn was a bold, salacious, and pioneering individual. If Frances Burney made women... |
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| 24 | Thomas Middleton: No Wit, No Help like a Playwright's |
During his career Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) produced a pretty spectacular canon of plays:... |
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| 25 | Frances Burney: the "Mother of English Fiction" |
Before there... |
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| 26 | Ben Jonson: Renaissance Playwright, Renaissance Man |
Ben Jonson 1572-1637) was an early modern playwright whose popularity rivaled that of... |
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| 27 | Who Killed Christopher Marlowe (and Why)? | Kate O'Connor | |
| 28 | Thomas Dekker |
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| 29 | John Webster: A Darker Playwright for Renaissance England |
In the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, a young boy seen feeding a live mouse to a cat... |
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