Ian Andrew Munro

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Professor, Drama
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998, English
Phone: (949)824-3429
Email: imunro@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
242 Drama
Mail Code: 2775
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Shakespeare; Early Modern Theater; Early Cultures; European Theater and Performance; Critical Theory; Urban Space and Representation
Publications
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and its Double. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
A Woman's Answer is Never to Seek: Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526-1635. Ashgate Press, 2007. (Part of the "Early Modern Englishwoman" facsimile series.)
"Vita Energetica: Love's Labour's Lost and Shakespeare's Maculate Theater." In Shakespeare's Virtuous Theater: Power, Capacity, and the Good, ed. Julia Reinhard Lupton, Carolyn Sale, and Kent Lehnhof. University of Edinburgh Press, 2023.
"London." In A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies, ed. John Lee. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
"The Matter of Wit and the Early Modern Stage." In A New Companion to Renaissance Drama, ed. Arthur Kinney and Thomas Hopper. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
"Performance History." In Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader, ed. Julia Reinhard Lupton. Arden Shakespeare (Bloomsbury), 2016.
"Contexts: Tudor and Stuart Humor." In The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 2: The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century. Broadview Press, 2016. [Edited collection with Introduction]
"City." In The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, ed. Bruce Smith et al. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
"Tudor Jestbooks." Co-authored with Anne Lake Prescott (Barnard College). In The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640, ed. Andrew Hadfield. Oxford University Press, 2013.
"The Populations of London." In Thomas Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
"Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor Faustus." In Tarrying with the Subjunctive: The Return of Theory in Early Modern Studies, ed. Paul Cefalu and Bryan Reynolds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
"Knightly Complements: The Malcontent and the Matter of Wit." English Literary Renaissance 40.2 (Spring 2010): 215-37.
"City of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass." In Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650, ed. Amanda Bailey and Roze Hentschell. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
"Page Wit and Puppet-like Wealth: Orality and Print in Three Lords and Three Ladies of London." In Locating the Queen’s Men: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, 1583-1603, ed. Helen Ostovich and Holger Syme. Ashgate Press, 2009.
"Shakespeare's Jestbook: Wit, Print, Performance." ELH 70.1 (Spring 2004): 89-113.
"Making Publics: Secrecy and Publication in A Game at Chess." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 14 (2001): 207-26.
"Hélène Cixous." Co-authored with Bryan Reynolds (UC Irvine). In The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century European Cultural Theorists, ed. Paul Hansom. Gale Research, 2001.
"The City and its Double: Plague Time in Early Modern London." English Literary Renaissance 30.2 (Spring 2000): 241-61.
"The Liar of Orpheus: Framing Devices and Narrative Structure in Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy." In Robertson Davies: An Appreciation, ed. Elspeth Cameron. Broadview Press, 1991.
Research Centers
Center for Early Cultures
New Swan Shakespeare Center
Last updated
11/20/2023