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Paul W. White
Professor, Department of English
Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Office Phone: (765) 496-3390
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: pwhite@purdue.edu
Specialization:
British Literature, Theatrical patronage and religion/theatre relations in Renaissance England
Homepage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pwhite/english/
Professor White is the director of Purdue's interdisciplinary program in Medieval and Renaissance studies. He specializes in early English theatre with particular attention to religion, sexuality, and cultural issues. His publications include Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1475-1660 (Cambridge UP, 2008), Theatre and Reformation: Protestantism, Patronage, and Playing in Tudor England (Cambridge UP, 1993); Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Criticial Essays on Christopher Marlowe (AMS, 1998), which he edited for the Marlowe Society of America; and Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2002), co-edited with Suzanne R. Westfall.