Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Paul Mulholland, BA, MA (Toronto), PhD (Birmingham, England).

Associate Professor (1987).

E-mail: pmulholl@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, especially Thomas Middleton; Jacobean City Comedy; editing Early Modern texts; hand-press period bibliography and theory of textual transmission.

Books

  • Ed. A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton. The Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester UP, forthcoming.

  • Ed. with introductions: The Patient Man and the Honest Whore by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker (1604); The Two Gates of Salvation by Thomas Middleton (1609); The Peacemaker by Thomas Middleton (1618). The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. Ed. Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002.

  • Ed. The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1987 (rpt. 1999).

Selected recent articles

  • "Thomas Middleton, Lording Barry, and The Family of Love." Co-authored with Gary Taylor and MacD. P. Jackson. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 93 (1999): 213-41.

  • "Nicholas Okes (London: 1607-1645)" & "Nicholas Okes and John Norton (London: 1628-1629)." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 170: The British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700. Ed. James K. Bracken and Joel Silver. London, 1996: 193-8.
  • "A Source for the Painter Analogue in the Epilogue of The Roaring Girl." Modern Language Review 86 (1991).