David Norbrook

David Norbrook (born 1 June 1950) is Merton Professor of Renaissance English literature at Oxford University. He is a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.^[1] He specializes in literature, politics and historiography in the early modern period, and in early modern women's writing. He is currently writing a biography and edition of Lucy Hutchinson. He teaches in literary theory and early modern texts, in early modern women writers, and in Shakespeare, Milton and Marvell. Before his current role, he taught at the University of Maryland.

Norbrook was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and Balliol College, Oxford. He became fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1978. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 1984), Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse (with H.R. Woudhuysen).

Academic studies

Professor Norbrook's historiographical studies of Renaissance English Literature explain the poetry, drama and prose writings of the period 1509-1659 in the political context of the period. Renaissance English poetry was closely involved with affairs of state: some poets held high office, others wrote to influence those in power and to sway an increasingly independent public opinion. In Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, Norbrook explains the political context and events that influenced writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton.

Norbrook's work shares a certain affinity with that of Stephen Greenblatt, although Norbrook is not regarded as a member of the new historicist school.

Norbrook has championed the work of minor and neglected poets from the Renaissance period.

References

1. ^ "Prof. David Norbrook". Merton College. http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/fellows_and_research/norbrook.shtml. Retrieved 20 February 2011. 

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