| Robert Henke is an Associate Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, and Chair of Comparative
Literature beginning in January, 2003. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1991. He has published Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays (Delaware,
1997), Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and articles on the commedia
dell’arte and on Shakespeare in Genre, Comparative Drama, Oral
Tradition, Comparative Literature Studies, Essays in Theatre,
and Theatre Survey. He was a Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence in
1995-96, and was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 1996. He teaches courses on Renaissance drama, ancient Greek drama,
Renaissance popular culture, comedy, the commedia dell’arte in text and performance, theatre and ritual, dramatic theory,
Renaissance literature, and world literature. He is now translating and editing a book of primary source documents on the
commedia dell’arte with Siro Ferrone from the University of Florence, and is beginning a study on vagrants and vagabondage
in Italian and English Renaissance drama.
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