English Department
Patricia Wareh
Job Title
Professor of English
Pronouns
She/her/hers
Research interests
Shakespeare and Spenser; Renaissance poetry and drama; Shakespeare in performance; Shakespeare in popular culture.
Publications
Book
Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences. Manchester University Press, 2024.
Courteous Exchanges is part of the The Manchester Spenser series, focused on Spenser and Renaissance studies. Complementing Wareh's courses on Shakespeare's plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the book situates these essential authors in relation to each other as well as to issues of education, gender, religion, race, and aristocratic identity.
Articles
“Literary Mirrors of Aristocratic Performance: Readers and Audiences of The Faerie Queene and The Winter’s Tale.” Renaissance Drama 43.1 (Spring 2015): 85-114.
“Honorable Action Upstaged by Theatrical Wordplay in The Faerie Queene 2.4 and Much Ado About Nothing.” Modern Philology 114.2 (November 2016): 264-85.
“Reading Women: Chastity and Fictionality in Cymbeline.” Renaissance Papers (2013): 131-46.
“‘Base Respects of Thrift’: Hamlet and Slings & Arrows.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 17.2 (2015): 264-88.
“Competitions in Courtesy and Nobility: Nennio and the Reader’s Judgment in Book VI of The Faerie Queene.” Spenser Studies XXVII (2012): 163-91.
“Humble Presents: Gift-Giving in Spenser’s Dedicatory Sonnets.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 38.2 (Fall 2005): 119-132.
Additional media
Academic credentials
B.A., University of Florida; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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