Background
Levin, Richard Louis was born on August 31, 1922 in Buffalo. Son of Bernard and Meta (Block) Levin.
(This book collects a number of Richard Levin's essays, be...)
This book collects a number of Richard Levin's essays, beginning with his well-known PMLA article of 1988 on "Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy" and continuing through the 1990s, that examine and evaluate some of the most important aspects of the new critical approaches to the interpretations of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries- principally the New Historicism, feminism, and revisionist versions of Marxism and Freudianism. In these essays he is looking not only for rational arguments in these approaches, but also for a rational argument with their practitioners, and therefore he reprints several of the responses that these essays have elicited (including th PMLA Forum letter signed by twenty-four people who objected to "Feminist Thematics") along with his answers to them, which contribute to this critique of the present state of the discourse in this field.
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Levin, Richard Louis was born on August 31, 1922 in Buffalo. Son of Bernard and Meta (Block) Levin.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1943; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1957.
Member faculty University Chicago, 1949-1957, assistant professor English, 1953-1957. Professor English, State University of New York, Stony Brook, from 1957, acting chairman English department, 1960-1963, 65-66, retired, 1994. Member advisory board World Center Shakespeare Studies.
Member academy advisory council Shakespeare Globe Center. Fulbright lecturer, 1984—1985. Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
(This book collects a number of Richard Levin's essays, be...)
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Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member Modern Language Association (member of advisory committee publications, member delegate assembly), International Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare Association American (trustee), New York Shakespeare Society, Malone Society, Joseph Crabtree Foundation, Marlowe Society American, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (member of council), American Association of University Professors, Institute for Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies.
Married Muriel Abrams, June 22, 1952. Children: David, Daniel.