Donald Beecher
Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA 2011 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship 2010 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bologna 2010 Carleton University, Chancellor’s Professor 2008 Carleton University, Research Achievement Award 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies 2003 Lansdowne Lectures, University of Victoria 2001
Research Interest
Early English prose fiction English and continental Renaissance drama The implications of the cognitive sciences for the production and reception of literature The Renaissance folktale and the Piacevoli notti of Straparola
Publications
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Folk Psychology’ and the Reality of Theatrical Characters: The Case of John Marston’s The Fawn.†Outsiders Within: Figures of Mediation in Tudor Drama. Ed. André Lascombes and Richard Hillman. Collection THETA Vol. 8, Centre d’études Superièure de la Renaissance (2007): 273-90.
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The Fables of Bidpai from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.†Renaissance Medievalisms. Ed. Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: CRRS Publications, 2008. 94-106.
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Suspense is Believing: The Reality of Ben Jonson’s Alchemist.†Seeing is Believing, Or Is It? Ed. André Lascombes and Richard Hillman. Collection THETA Vol. 8, Centre d’études Superièure de la Renaissance (2009): 3-14.
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Timothy Bright’s Dilemma: Materializing the Wrath of God.†Mirrors of Melancholy. Ed. Hélène Cazes. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.
