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David Nicol
Department of Theatre
Theatre Studies
BA - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
MA - Shakespeare Institute
PhD - University of Central England
Email: David.Nicol@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-1491
Office: 5.26
David Nicol received his MA in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, and his PhD from the University of Central England. He has taught numerous courses on theatre, film and literature; his teaching and research interests include classical and early modern drama, theatre history and film studies.
David's main research area is the career of the Jacobean playwright William Rowley. He has published articles in Cahiers Elisabethains, Comparative Drama, Early Theatre, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Notes and Queries, and Studies in English Literature. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse for the University of Toronto Press, and is writing the entry on Rowley for the forthcoming Blackwells Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. He is also co-editing the stage history section of the New Variorum edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
David is theatre reviews editor for the online journal Early Modern Literary Studies. If you would like to submit a review of a recent production of a sixteenth or seventeenth century play, please get in touch.
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