PINCISS, Gerald M. 1936-

PERSONAL:

Born December 6, 1936, in Boston, MA. Education: Dartmouth College, B.A., 1958; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1967.

ADDRESSES:

Home—45 East 89th St., No. 36C, New York, NY 10128; fax: 212-348-6275.

CAREER:

Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, assistant professor, 1967-72, associate professor, 1973-78, professor of English, 1979-98, department chair, 1972-75; writer, 1998—. Graduate Center of the City University of New York, assistant professor, 1967-72, associate professor, 1973-78, professor, 1979-98.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Research fellowship, Huntington Library, 1977; George Shuster Award, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1985.

WRITINGS:

Christopher Marlowe: A Study of the Plays, Frederick Ungar Publishing (New York, NY), 1975.

(Editor) The Faithful Friends, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1976.

(With others) Explorations in the Arts, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY), 1985.

Literary Creations: Conventional Characters in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Boydell & Brewer (Rochester, NY), 1988.

(With others) Shakespeare's World: Background Readings in the English Renaissance, Continuum Publishing (New York, NY), 1989.

Forbidden Matter: Religion in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals, including Studies in English Literature.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

ANQ, July, 1991, review of Shakespeare's World: Background Readings in the English Renaissance, p. 165.

Choice, July-August, 2000, L. M. Tenbusch, review of Forbidden Matter: Religion in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, p. 1982.

Shakespeare Newsletter, spring-summer, 2001, Frank Ardolino, review of Forbidden Matter, p. 11.

Shakespeare Quarterly, summer, 1991, Leslie Dunn, review of Shakespeare's World, p. 230.

Shakespeare Survey, 1990, Richard Dutton, review of Literary Creations: Conventional Characters in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, p. 235.

Sixteenth-Century Journal, summer, 2001, Elizabeth Otten Delmonico, review of Forbidden Matter, p. 605.