Prof Tom Clayton

Contact Me

tsc@umn.edu

Affiliations

• English
• Classical Civilization Program

Links

• Early Modern Faculty Research Group

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

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

Specialties

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

Courses Taught

• 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
• Introduction to Shakespeare
• 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

Publications

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

Awards

• Regents Professor, 1999
• Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education, 1999
• McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1994 - 1997
• Endowment for the Humanities: Co-director, Summer Seminar on Shakespear, Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1993
• Scholor of the College of Liberal Arts, 1989 - 1992
• Horace T. Morse-Amoco Award fo rOutstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1982
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978