Ken Jacobsen

English

Assistant Professor

Active Research Interests

Contemporary representations of Shakespeare in biographies, novels, plays and films

Ideology of authorship in The Merchant of Venice and Volpone

Past Research Interests

Discursive relationship between early modern sermons and plays

Rhetoric in the Taming of the Shrew, Othello

Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Machiavelli's The Art of War

Emerging Research Interests

Ecclesiastes and the literary tradition

Early modern prophetic discourse

Edition of Thomas Adams

Early theatrical career of Henrik Ibsen