Lund-Gill Chair 2007, David Bevington
About David Bevington
Dr. Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago where he has been teaching since 1967. Previously he taught at Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
Dr. Bevington will be teaching an honors course titled “Wisdom and Power” for seniors in the spring 2007 semester. The course will focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, The Book of Job and Shakespeare’s King Lear.
David Bevington’s Work
His studies include From Mankind to Marlowe, Tudor Drama and Politics, and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare’s Language of Gesture. He is also the editor of Medieval Drama (Houghton Mifflin); The Bantam Shakespeare, in 29 paperback volumes, currently being reedited; and The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Longman), as well as the Oxford 1 Henry IV, the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra, and the Arden 3 Troilus and Cressida.
He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He is senior editor of the recently published Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama. With Peter Holbrook, he has edited a collection of essays on The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (Cambridge University Press). His two latest books are Shakespeare, second edition and, edited with Anne Marie Welsh and Michael L. Greenwald, Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen (New York: Pearson Longman). Forthcoming in 2006 from Blackwell Publishers is How to Read a Shakespeare Play and, from the University of Chicago Press, This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now.
He is the recipient of several distinguished honors and awards such as the Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize, University of Virginia; the Quantrell Teaching Award, University of Chicago; and two Guggenheim Fellowships (1964-1965 and 1981-1982).
For more information contact Mickey Sweeney, professor of English at (708) 524-6940 or email her at msweeney@dom.edu.
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