Academic Vita

FREDERICK KIEFER                       

 

EDUCATION

1972   Ph.D., English Literature, Harvard University

1968   M.A., English Literature, Harvard University

1967   B.A., English Literature, Loyola College, Maryland

 

MAJOR FIELD   Renaissance Literature, especially drama; Elizabethan visual culture

 

EMPLOYMENT

1996-         Professor of English, University of Arizona

1979-96  Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona

1973-79  Assistant Professor of English, University of Arizona

1972-73  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin

 

PUBLICATIONS

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

Shakespeare’s Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.  (1-358 pp.)

Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books.  Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1996. (1-377 pp.)

Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy.  San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1983. (i-xx + 1-354 pp.)

 

CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS

“Poems as Props in Love’s Labor’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing.”  In Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.  Ed. Ian Frederick Moulton.  Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 8.  Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004.  Pp. 127-41.

“A Dumb Show of the Senses in Timon of Athens.”  In the Company of Shakespeare: Essays on English Renaissance Literature in Honor of G. Blakemore Evans.  Edited by Thomas Moisan and Douglas Bruster.  Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2002.  Pp. 130-58.

"'Written Troubles of the Brain': Lady Macbeth's Conscience."  Reading and Writing in Shakespeare.  Edited by David Bergeron.  Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1996.  Pp. 64-81.

"A Mirror for Magistrates."  The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Authors.  3rd Series.  Vol. 167.  Edited by David Richardson.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1996.  Pp. 116-27.

"Fortune, Chance."  The Spenser Encyclopedia.  Edited by A. C. Hamilton.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.  Pp. 312-13.

 

ARTICLES

“Curtains on the Shakespearean Stage.”  Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 20 (2007): 151-86.

Reprint: “Rumor, Fame, and Slander in 2 Henry IV.”  Shakespearean Criticism 100 Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.  Pp. 159-78. 

Reprint: “The Iconography of Time in The Winter’s Tale.”  Shakespearean Criticism 84.  Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004.  Pp. 176-82.

“Poems as Props in Love’s Labor’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing.”  In Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.  Ed. Ian Frederick Moulton.  Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 8.  Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004.  Pp. 127-41.

Reprint: “Fortune and Occasion in Shakespeare: Richard II, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet.”  Shakespearean Criticism 81.  Detroit: Thomson, Gale, 2004.  Pp. 98-113.  Reprinted from Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy (1983).

“Creating a Christian Revenger: The Spanish Tragedy and Its Progeny vs. Hamlet.”  The Shakespeare Yearbook 13, Shakespeare and Spain.  Ed. José Manuel González and Holger Klein.  Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.  Pp. 159-80.

“Fortune on the Renaissance Stage: An Iconographic Reconstruction.”  In Fortune: “All is but Fortune” [The catalogue of an exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library].  Ed. Leslie Thomson.  Seattle and London: University of Washington Press for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000.  Pp. 68-79.

“The Iconography of Time in The Winter’s Tale.”  Renaissance and Reformation 23 (Summer 1999): 49-64.

“Rumor, Fame, and Slander in 2 Henry IV.”  Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature 20 (1999): 3-43.

Reprint: "Love Letters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona."  The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Critical Essays.  Edited by June Schleuter.  Garland Reference Library of the Humanities.  New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1995.  Pp. 133-52.

Reprint: "Spring and Winter in Love's Labor's Lost: An Iconographic Reconstruction."  Emblem, Iconography, and Drama.  Edited by Clifford Davidson, Luis R. Gámez, and John H. Stroupe.  Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.  Pp. 91-107.

"Spring and Winter in Love's Labor's Lost: An Iconographic Reconstruction."  Comparative Drama 29 (Spring 1995): 91-107.

Reprint: "Art, Nature, and the Written Word in Pericles."  Shakespearean Criticism, Yearbook 1992.  Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Gale Research Inc., 1994.  Pp. 315-23.

"Renaissance Design: An Interdisciplinary Approach."  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching NS 3, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 3-13.

"Art, Nature, and the Written Word in Pericles."  The University of Toronto Quarterly 61 (Winter 1991/2): 207-25.

"The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Stage and Screen."  The Signet Classic Shakespeare.  Revised Edition.  New York: New American Library, 1988.  Pp. 204-14.

"The Dance of the Madmen in The Duchess of Malfi."  Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17 (1987): 211-33.

"Heywood as Moralist in A Woman Killed with Kindness."  Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 3 (1986): 83-98.

"Love Letters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona."  Shakespeare Studies 18 (1986): 65-85.

"Senecan Influence: A Bibliographic Supplement."  Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 28 (1985): 129-42.

"Churchyard's 'Cardinal Wolsey' and Its Influence on Shakespeare's Henry VIII."  Essays in Literature 6 (1979): 3-10.

"The Conflation of Fortuna and Occasio in Renaissance Thought and Iconography."  Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 9 (1979): 1-27.

"Seneca's Influence on Elizabethan Tragedy: An Annotated Bibliography."  Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 21 (1978): 17-34.

"Seneca Speaks in English: What the Elizabethan Translators Wrought."  Comparative Literature Studies 15 (1978): 372-87.

"Pretense in Ben Jonson's Sejanus."  Essays in Literature 4 (1977): 19-26.

"Love and Fortune in Boccaccio's Tancredi and Ghismonda Story and in Wilmot's Gismond of Salerne."  Renaissance and Reformation NS 1 (1977): 36-45.

"Fortune and Providence in the Mirror for Magistrates."  Studies in Philology 74 (1977): 146-64.

 

REVIEWS

Bryan Crockett, The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England.  Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 16-17 (1995-96): 210-12.

John S. Mebane, Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare.  Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism, NS 8, no. 2 (Fall 1989): 9-10.

Gordon Braden, Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege.  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 86 (1987): 94-97.

James C. Bulman, The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy."  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 86 (1987): 548-50.

Jane Donawerth, Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language; and C. G. Thayer, Shakespearean Politics.  Huntington Library Quarterly 47 (1984): 309-12.

 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

“What the Playgoer sees in Hamlet: Action on the Stage.”  The International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, August 2006 [invited].

“Image and Stage: Iconography on the Stage and in the Classroom.”  The Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 2006.

“Shakespearean Historicism: The Visual Dimension.”  The International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, July 2004 [invited].

“Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I.”  Public symposium marking the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth’s death: The Many Faces of Elizabeth I, at ASU, October 2003.

“Spectacle in Cymbeline.”  Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2003.

“Poems as Props in Shakespearean Comedy.”  Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, April 2002.

“Revenge in the Mediterranean: Opportunity and Vengeance.”  World Shakespeare Congress, Valencia, April 2000.

“Fortune and Shakespeare, An Overview.”  Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco, March 1999.