William Ingram

Professor Emeritus
Department of English
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003

E-mail: ingram@umich.edu

    B.A. with honors, Grinnell College;
    M.A. with honors, Columbia University;
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

    ⌦ Primary Interests: early modern London; its professional stage; its high and popular culture; its history.
    ⌦ Secondary Interests: early English manuscripts; chancery and secretary hands; transcription.
    ⌦ Selected Publications:

• "Early Modern Theatre History: where we are now, how we got here, where we go next", introductory essay to A Handbook on Early Modern Theatre, ed. Richard Dutton (Oxford University Press, forthcoming);
• "The Real Misfortunes of Arthur; Or, Not Making It on the Elizabethan Stage", Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 16 (2003), 32-38;
• England, 1530-1642, volume 7 in the series The Theatre in Europe: Documents and Sources, in collaboration with Glynne Wickham and Herbert Berry (Cambridge University Press, 2001);
• "Laurence Dutton, Stage Player: Missing and Presumed Lost", Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 14 (2001);
• "The Economics of Playing", in A Companion to Shakespeare, ed. David Scott Kastan (Columbia University Press, 1998);
• "The Future of the Theatrical Past", Shakespeare Quarterly 48 (1997) 215-225;
• The Business of Playing: the beginnings of the adult professional theatre in Elizabethan London (Cornell University Press, 1992);
• A London Life in the Brazen Age: Francis Langley, 1548-1602 (Harvard University Press, 1978);
• A Concordance to John Milton's English Poetry (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972).