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Rhodri Lewis

Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer with Rank of Professor in English

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Rhodri Lewis
Rhodri Lewis

Title: Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer with Rank of Professor in English

Institution: Princeton

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: Author of 'Shakespeare's Tragic Art' (The New Yorker Best Books of 2024); former Head of Graduate Studies for the Humanities Division and Director of Ertegun House at Oxford University

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Biography

Rhodri Lewis is a literary and intellectual historian who spent 23 years at the University of Oxford before moving to Princeton in 2018. His interests center on the literary, cultural, and intellectual histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a focus on Shakespeare and early modern thought. His book 'Shakespeare's Tragic Art' (2024) was listed as one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024.

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Roundtable Appearances

Shakespeare Forever
April 22, 2023 · ▶ Video
Shakespeare Forever
The date of this Round Table is not a coincidence: William Shakespeare was born on or about April 23, 1564, and he died on April 23, 1616. This is a particularly auspicious year...
History & Culture Literature & Writing
Carl Cofield, Jeff Dolven, David Scott Kastan, Rhodri Lewis, Sophie McIntosh
Podcast (1:42:29)
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