Emeritus Professor Chris Wortham
Professor Wortham’s publications include articles on Marlowe’s
Dr Faustus; Shakespeare’s
Othello,
King Lear and
Antony and Cleopatra; Milton’s
Paradise Lost; and Marvell’s ‘Cromwell’ poems. His editions include the morality play,
Everyman;
Marlowe’s Dr Faustus;
Marvell’s Poetry;
Shakespeare: Readers, Audiences, Players ed. with R.S. White and C. Edelman; and
Renaissance in the South ed. with Tom Burvill.
His research interests include Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and Medieval literature and poetry. Professor Wortham is currently researching for the following books:
Shakespeare and the Matter of Britain;
Shakespeare’s Maps;
Devotional Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.