Ton Hoenselaars
Dep. Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie - Engels
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Ton Hoenselaars is professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Utrecht. His research concentrates on early modern English literature (with a special focus on Shakespeare) and its international relations. He has published widely on images of nations in Renaissance literature, literature in translation, and on Shakespeare in European culture from 1600 to the present day. He is the author of Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Associated U Presses, 1992), and co-editor of a number of collections, including Shakespeare's Italy (Manchester UP, 1993, 19972), The Italian world of English Renaissance Drama (U of Delaware P, 1998), Vreemd volk (Amsterdam UP, 1998), The Author as Character (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999), 400 Years of Shakespeare in Europe (U of Delaware Press, 2003), Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (Arden Shakespeare, 2004), Shakespeare's History Plays (Cambridge UP, 2004, 2006), and Challenging Humanism (U of Delaware P, 2005). His current research includes work on the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (due 2012), and a monograph on Shakespeare and World War I. He was the 2012 Sam Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe in London.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Hoenselaars, A.J. (2016). Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Learning. In Bruce Smith & Ton Hoenselaars (Eds.), Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare - Volume 1 (pp. 198-205). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Hoenselaars, A.J. & Smith, Bruce (2016). Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, 2 vols. (2248 p.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Hoenselaars, A.J. & Helmers, Helmer (2016). "The Spanish Tragedy" and the Tragedy of Revenge in the Low Countries. Doing Kyd - Ed. Nicoletta Cinpous Manchester University Press.
