Gail Kern Paster

Gail Kern Paster (born 1944) is an American Shakespeare scholar, historian and writer.

Life

She was born on 8 November 1944.

She graduated from North Shore High School (New York) in 1962.

Career

She completed her bachelor's degree from Smith College and her PhD from Yale University.[1][2]

She has taught at the George Washington University from 1974 to 2002.[3]

From 2002 to 2011, she was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library.[4]

She has served as editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly magazine.[5]

Bibliography

Her notable books include:[6][7]

• Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage (2004)
• Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion
• A Midsummer Night's Dream: Texts and Contexts
• The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare (1986)
• Michaelmas Term: Thomas Middleton
• The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (1993).

References

1. "2011 Honorees - Gail Kern Paster - Amherst College". www.amherst.edu. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
2. "Gail Kern Paster - First Folio: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare - On Tour From The Folger Shakespeare Library". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
3. Trescott, Jacqueline (15 June 2010). "Folger Shakespeare Library's director, Gail Kern Paster, to retire in 2011". Retrieved 1 June 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
4. "Gail Kern Paster - Folgerpedia". folgerpedia.folger.edu. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
5. "Gail Kern Paster - Shakespeare Quarterly". Retrieved 1 June 2018.
6. "Gail Kern Paster". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
7. "Gail Kern Paster", Encyclopedia Britannica, retrieved May 13, 2020

External links

• Gail Kern Paster