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Fields of Interest
Biography
Areas of Specialization
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century British History, Literature, and Drama; world drama; textual theory and practice.
Activities and Interests
W. R. Streitberger has written six books and several dozen articles. His principal historical focus has been on entertainments at the Tudor and Stuart courts. More generally he is interested in drama and theatricality from the beginning to the present. He has also taught the core course in Printed Texts in the Interdisciplinary Textual Studies Program, where another of his interests is in theory and practice of documentary editing. His current research and writing is focused on the diplomatic and historical writings of Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels (1579-1601) and Censor of Plays (1581-1610) during most of Shakespeare's working lifetime. The project is tentatively entitled 'Shakespeare's Censor'.
Research
Selected Research
- The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Drama, Classical to Contemporary, revised edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001)
- William Streitberger and John Coldewey. Drama: Classical to Contemporary, rev ed. Prentice Hall. 2001.
- Drama, Classical to Contemporary (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998)
- William Streitberger. Court Revels, 1485-1559. University of Toronto Press. 1994.
- Edmond Tyllney, Topographical Descriptions, Regiments, and Policies (New York & London: Garland, 1991)
- Jacobean and Caroline Revels Accounts, 1603-1642, Malone Society Collections XIII (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
- Edmond Tyllney Master of the Revels and Censor of Plays, A Descriptive Index (New York; AMS Pres, 1986)
- William Streitberger. Jacobean and Caroline Revels Accounts, 1603-1642. Malone Society Collections, XIII. Oxford University Press. 1986, reissued 1991.
- "Adult Playing Companies to 1583", The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, ed. Richard Dutton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)