Tom Clayton

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: English Literature, Oxford University, 1960 -

Specialties

• English
• seventeenth-century literature
• Shakespeare
• drama
• classical civilization
• classical studies

Publications

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Publications

• The "Hamlet" First Published (Q1.1603): Origins. Forms, Intertextualities. Universiy of Delaware Press, Clayton, Tom, 1992.
• “Meter and Meaning in Shakespeare: A Modest Suggestion.“ . Clayton, Tom, 2007.
• "Politics, Ethics, and í†sthetics in and out of Three Tragedies by Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Coriolanus.": Aristotle University, Clayton, Tom, 2007.
• “’At Bottom a Criticism of Life’: Suckling and the Poetry of Low Seriousness.“ Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben.: University of Pittsburgh Press, Clayton, Tom, 1982.
• “’So quick bright things come to confusion’; or, What Else Was A Midsummer Night’s Dream About"?: University of Delaware Press, Clayton, Tom, 1999.
• “Sir John Suckling.“: Oxford University Press, Clayton, Tom, 2004.
• “Macbeth’s “˜Yet I will try the last’ What?“ . Clayton, Tom, 1997.
• “’...lucharé hasta el final.’ ¿el qué?’(Macbeth V. viii. 32).“ En Torno Shakespeare 6 (Web)/Contrastes 13 (print, 2001).
• “On Editing and Reviewing Selected Collections.". Clayton, Tom, 2005.

Awards

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Awards

• Endowment for the Humanities: Co-director, Summer Seminar on Shakespear, Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1993 - none
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978 - none
• Horace T. Morse-Amoco Award fo rOutstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1982 - none
• McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1994 - 1997
• Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education, 1999 - none
• Scholor of the College of Liberal Arts, 1989 - 1992
• Regents Professor, 1999

Courses

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Courses

• Introduction to Shakespeare
• Introduction to Advanced Literary Study
• Shakespeare Seminar
• Proseminar in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• Athol Fugard: The Dramatic Conscience of White South Africa
• Great Books: Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy
• Modern and Contemporary British Drama
• Classics of Literary Criticism
• Milton
• Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry
• Jacobean and Caroline Poetry
• The Poetry of George Herbert and Andrew Marvell