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Education Publications VITA WILLIAM PROCTOR WILLIAMS Department of English University of Akron Akron, OH 44325 Phone: (330)972-6234 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., Kansas State University, 1968 M.A., Kansas State University, 1964 Delegacy of Extra-Mural Studies Certificate, Oxford University (Exeter College), 1962 B.A., Kansas State University, 1961 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Visiting Professor, Blackfriars Theatre/Mary Baldwin College, Spring, 2004, Spring, 2007 Adjunct Professor of English, University of Akron, 2008– Senior Lecturer in English, University of Akron, 2000 –2008 Professor of English Emeritus, Northern Illinois University, 2000 – Professor of English, Northern Illinois University, 1978-1999 Director of Graduate Studies in English, l978-8l Acting Associate Dean for Research of the Graduate School, l982 Interim Director of University Libraries, 1982-3 Associate Professor of English, Northern Illinois University, 1970-78 Assistant Professor of English, Northern Illinois University, 1967-70 Instructor of English, Kansas State University, 1966-67 PUBLICATIONS Books and monographs 1 Elizabethan Bibliographies Supplements IV: George Chapman and John Marston. London: Nether Press, 1968. (with Charles A. Pennel). Elizabethan Bibliographies Supplements VIII: Beaumont, Fletcher, Massinger, Ford, and Shirley. London: Nether Press, 1968. (with Charles A. Pennel). A Bibliography of the Writings of Jeremy Taylor to 1700. DeKalb: NIU Press, 1971. (with Robert Gathorne-Hardy). A Bibliography of Jeremy Taylor: 1700-1980. New York: Garland, 1979. An Index to the Stationers' Register, 1640-1708. La Jolla, Calif.: McGilvery, 1980. A Bibliography of the Writings of Robert Graves, Second Edition. London: St. Paul's Bibliographies and Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia , 1987. (with Fred H. Higginson). Titus Andronicus Q1 (Malone Society Reprints). eds. Thomas L. Berger and Barbara A. Mowat. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. (assistant, with G. R. Proudfoot). Macbeth (edition of the play with textual introduction, introduction, edited text, commentary and performance notes). London: Methuen and Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006. Romeo and Juliet (edition of the play with textual introduction, introduction, edited text, commentary and performance notes). London: Methuen and Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007. Richard III (edition of the play with textual introduction, introduction, edited text, commentary and performance notes). London: Methuen and Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007. An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies. New York: MLA, 1985; second printing with corrections, 1986; Second Edition [with additions and corrections], 1989; Third Edition, 1999; Fourth Edition, 2009. (with Craig S. Abbott). Catalogues A Descriptive Catalogue of Seventeenth-Century English Religious Literature in the Kansas State University Library. Manhattan, Ks.: KSU Libraries, 1966. 2 Compiler, Pre-1700 Imprints in the Northern Illinois University Library. DeKalb: Center for Bibliography and Textual Studies, 1973. Compiler, The Robert Gathorne-Hardy Jeremy Taylor Collection: A Provisional Listing. DeKalb: Center for Bibliography and Textual Studies, 1973. A Catalogue of the English Books Printed Before 1700 in the Library of the Marquis of Northampton at Castle Ashby. DeKalb: Center for Bibliography and Textual Studies, 1978. Articles and chapters in books "The Unity of The Temple." Xavier University Studies, 5 (1966), 37-45. (with Charles A. Pennel). "F1 Coriolanus Fragment Found in Seventeenth-Century Binding." Shakespeare Newsletter, 16 (1966), 1. (with Louis Marder). "The F1 Othello Copy-Text." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 63 (1969), 23-25. "John Cleveland and the Childrens Threes." American Notes & Queries, 9 (1971), 83-84. "The First Edition of Holy Living: An Episode in the Seventeenth- Century Book Trade." The Library, 28 (1973), 99-107. "Other Patterns of Stoicism: 1530-1670." Modern Language Review, 69 (1974), 1-11. "The First Edition of Holy Living. " The Library, 29 (1974), 338. (response to Dr. Juel-Jensen). "Was There a 1670 Edition of Leviathan?" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 69 (1975), 81-4. "Sir Henry Herbert's Licensing of Plays in the Restoration." Notes & Queries, 220 (1975), 255-256. "Jeremy Taylor's Other Prose Style." Kansas Quarterly, 7 (Fall, 1975), 91-96. "The Publication of Raree Show." Editorial Quarterly, 1 (1975), 6-8. 3 "Eight Unpublished Letters by Jeremy Taylor." Anglican Theological Review, 58 (1976), 179-193. "Chetwin, Crooke, and the Jonson Folios." Studies in Bibliography, 30 (1977), 75-95. "A Response to F. R. Bolton's 'The Setting of Eight Letters by Jeremy Taylor.'" Anglican Theological Review, 59 (1977), 301-303. Critical edition and introduction. "Canterbury His Change of Diet." Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 1 (1977), 37-65. "Indexing the Stationers' Register." Literary Research Newsletter, 2 (1977), 3-19. "Analytical Bibliography and the Historical Study of Style." Style, 11 (1977), 233-241. "The Castle Ashby Manuscripts." Times Literary Supplement, 9 December 1977, 1448. "The Fable in Spenser's May Eclogue." Studies in English and American Literature. Eds. John L. Cutler and Lawrence S. Thompson. Troy, N. Y.: Whitston, 1978. pp. 39-42. "Some Notes on “ ⌠ ”and _s._ AEB, 3 (l979), 97-l0l. Review Essay: "Short-Title Catalogue . 1475-1640. Vol. II. 2nd ed. Eds. Katharine Pantzer, et al. Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1976." Review, 1 (1979), 249-254. "Research Opportunities in Seventeenth-Century Book Trade History." AEB, 3 (1979), 185-89. "A New Poem to James Duke of York." Seventeenth-Century News, 28 (1980), 8-9. "Whose Ignis is Fatuus: A Dissenting View of the Teaching of the Bibliography Course." LRN, 5 (l980), 88-93. "The Robert Gathorne-Hardy Jeremy Taylor Collection." Seventeenth-Century News, 28 (1980), 17. "The Castle Ashby Manuscripts, A Description of the Volumes in Bishop Percy's List." The Library, 6th ser., 2 (l980), 39l-4l2. "Seventeenth-Century Drama." Times Literary Supplement, 23 October l98l, l237. "The Oxford Shakespeare." Times Literary Supplement, 19 August 1983, 882. "Biblio-Textual Studies in the Graduate Curriculum." LRN 9 (1984), 74-81. 4 “‘Smith of the Museum’.” Times Literary Supplement, 27 September 1985, 1062. "Paper as Evidence: The Utility of the Study of Paper for Seventeenth-Century English Literary Scholarship." Essays in Paper Analysis. ed. Stephen Spector. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987. pp. 191-199. English Political Dialogues, Critical old-spelling editions of twenty-two dialogues. General Editor with Thomas L. Berger. Published in AEB," Canterbury His Change of Diet” 1(1977), 33-65; "Crafty Cromwell I," 2 (1978), 167-219; “The Levellers Levelled," 3/4 (1980), 181-240; "1 New-Market Fayre," 6 (1982), 70-103; "2 New-Market Fayre," 6 (1982), 209-239; "The Kentish Fair," 8 (l984), 2-17; "The Mistress Parliament Dialogues" N.S. 1 (1987), 100-170. "Not Hornpipes and Funerals: Fletcherian Tragicomedy." Renaissance Tragicomedy: Explorations in Genre and Politics. ed. N. K. Maguire. New York: AMS Press, 1987. pp. 139-154. "Critical Bibliography" and textual headnote for The Faerie Queene. The Spenser Encyclopedia. ed. A. C. Hamilton, et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. pp. 90-93, 259. "Shakespearean Textual Ideology." Professing Shakespeare Now. eds. Robert P. Merrix and Nicholas Ranson. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. pp. 127-135. "Evidence of Performance." English Language Notes 30 (1992) 11-16. "Swallowing the Book." Editors' Notes 12 (1993) 67-68. "Courting and Dumb Shows: Editorial and Theatrical Modification in the Text of Titus Andronicus." Titus Andronicus: Essays (Garland Shakespeare Criticism series). ed. Philip Kolin. New York: Garland, 1995. pp. 347-55. "Richard Royston: A Bibliographical Biography." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 170. eds. James K. Bracken and Joel Silver. Detroit: Brucolli, Clark, Layman, 1996. pp. 219-230. “A Variorum: ‘How It Goes.’” John Donne Journal. 17 (1998 [pub. 1999]). pp. 197-206 “Elizabethan Handwriting.” Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. ed Arthur Kinney et al.. New York: Garland, 2001. pp. 322-23. “Caveat Lector: English Books 1475-1700 and the Electronic Age.” Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography. N.S. 12 (2001). pp. 1-30. "Blackfriars Playhouse Inaugural Conference, 11-14 October 2001, Staunton, Virginia" [commissioned article on the conference]. Shakespeare Bulletin. 19 (2001). 45-46, 5 “Foreword” in Darl Larsen. “It’s . ” Shakespeare: English Renaissance Drama and Monty Python. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. pp. 1-3. “The History of The Book” [review essay]. Review 25 (2003), 211-29. “Cosmo Manuche.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. eds. Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. vol. 36: 569-70. “Richard Royston” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. eds. Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. vol. 48: 61-2. “The Lamentable Comedy of Sir John Falstaff.” Shakespeare Newsletter 54 (2004/2005), 103-106. “Stratford and The Globe in 2004.” Shakespeare Newsletter 54 (2004 [2005]), 57-58, 64. “Hamlet’s Pockets: Problems with Stage Directions.” Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage. Ed. Paul Menzer. Cranbury, NJ and London: Susquehanna Univ. Press and Associated University Presses, 2006, 192-199. “Inclusive Ignorance: The Anthology, English Studies, and Higher Education in the United States” [a review essay]. Notes & Queries
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