Adrian Weiss
Professor, English Department, USD
Fall 2000 Office Hours: TTH 3:30-5; W 3-4:30; by appointment.
Office: Dakota Hall, #232
Tele. 605-677-5978
E-mail aweiss@usd.edu

Academic Specialties:

Teaches Shakespeare and does research in early printed texts.

Some of the courses that Dr. Weiss has taught at USD:

ENGL 431/432 Shakespeare: The Comedies and the Tragedies
ENGL 725 Graduate Seminar: Renaissance Women in Conflict in Elizabethan Drama
ENGL 725 Graduate Seminar: The Courtly Love Tradition in Renaissance Prose, Poetry, and Drama
ENGL 786 Graduate Seminar: Classical and Renaissance Literary Criticism
ENGL 786 Graduate Seminar: Theory of Tragedy
ENGL 325/525 Renaissance Literature: Prose Fiction of the Renaissance; Renaissance Drama; Classical Backgrounds of Renaissance Literature; The Courtly Love Tradition in Renaissance Prose, Poetry, and Drama
ENGL 326/526 Age of Milton: John Milton; the Neo-Classical and Metaphysical Poets
ENGL 446/646 Black Literature
ENGL 417/616 European Literature
ENGL 221/222 Intro. to British Literature

Education:
Ph.D. Ohio University, 1969; M.A. Ohio University, 1965; B.A. Waynesburg College, 1964.

Sample Publications:

Articles:

"Shared Printing, Printer's Copy, and the Text(s) of Gascoigne's A Hundredth Sundry Flowres." Studies in Bibliography. 45 (1992), 71-104.

"Bibliography Methods for Identifying Unknown Printers of Elizabethan Books." Studies in Bibliography, 45 (1991), 183-228.

"Font Analysis as a Bibliographical Method: the Elizabethan Play-Quarto Printers and Compositors." Studies in Bibliography. 43 (1990), 95-164.

"Reproductions of Early Dramatic Texts as a Source of Bibliographical Evidence." TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship. 4 (1988), 237-268.

"A Pill to Purge Parody: Marston's Manipulation of Environment in the Antonio Plays." Themes in Drama VII: The Theatrical Space. Ed. James Redman (Cambridge University P, 1987), 81-97.

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