Michael O'Connell (Ph.D., Yale, 1971) Professor, English Department U. California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 tel: (805) 893- fax: (805) 893-4622 email: oconnell@english.ucsb.edu

Renaissance Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Drama

• The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• "Vital Cultural Practices: Shakespeare and the Mysteries," JMEMS 29 (1999) 149-68.
• Robert Burton (G.K. Hall, 1986)
• Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene (University of North Carolina Press, 1977)
• Articles on Spenser, Catullus, Petrach, Milton and Handel, Milton and visual arts, Elizabethan and medieval theater
• Editor and Translator of Elisaeis by William Alabaster

Current Projects

• The relations between the late medieval theater and the Elizabethan stage
• "The Idolatrous Eye: Icononclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England," an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Lecture, UCSB, October 19, 2000.

Recent Courses Taught

• Chaucer
• The Drama Shakespeare Inherited
• Later Shakespeare
• Milton
• Literature of the Hebrew Scriptures
• Literature of the New Testament
• Biblical Narrative