ABOUT

Misha Teramura is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he researches and teaches the literature of the English Renaissance. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Review of English Studies, Early Theatre, The Chaucer Review, Notes & Queries, and the edited collection Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England. He is completing a book titled Shakespeare and Chaucer: Literary Authority on the Renaissance Stage, which re-examines theatrical appropriations of medieval poetry as sites where the professional playwright’s status as a literary dramatist could be explored, contested, and negotiated. Other current research interests include the lost plays of the Renaissance; textual scholarship; the life of Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland; the military career of Sir Robert Sidney; and the criticism of G. Wilson Knight.

Misha received his PhD in English from Harvard University after completing his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto.

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