GRACE TIFFANY
received her doctorate in English from Notre Dame in 1989, and now teaches teaches Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, and Renaissance literature at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Predominantly a Shakespearean, she has authored a number of scholarly articles, book chapters, and books which analyze Shakespearean drama as both literature and stagecraft. For twelve years she has also been a contributing editor to the international quarterly The Shakespeare Newsletter. Her research interests include Shakespeare and gender, Shakespeare and classicism, the London Theater Wars of 1599-1600, and, more recently, Shakespeare and the Protestant Reformation. She has written a book and an article (for The Huntington Library Quarterly) on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, androgyny, and the Theater Wars; and a historical novel about the professional rivalry among Shakespeare, Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. Her work on Shakespeare and religion has appeared in Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, The Upstart Crow, Renascence, and Christianity and Literature. Her most recent book, Love's Pilgrimage (University of Delaware Press), concerns Renaissance representations of holy pilgrimage and the altered pilgrimage tradition in Reformed England.

In Grace Tiffany's classes, students are urged to read and write about literature with attention to these or other Renaissance historical contexts. Professor Tiffany's Shakespeare classes also integrate the study of Shakespeare's poetry with the study of his dramaturgical achievements, treating his plays as plays: that is, as complex, volatile entities which fully exist only in performance.


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