Research Interests
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
Courses Taught
Early British literature; history of drama; renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Milton; other interesting things!
Additional Campus Affiliations
Interim Associate Dean for Humanities & Interdisciplinary Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor, English
Professor, Classics
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Perry, C. (2020). Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866316
Perry, C. (2006). Literature and favoritism in early modern England. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483875
Perry, C. (1997). The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice. Cambridge University Press.
Perry, C. (2019). New Directions After Decorum: Self-Performance and Political Liminality in Antony and Cleopatra. In D. Lovascio (Ed.), Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader (pp. 113-132). (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides). The Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350049932.ch-005
Perry, C. (2020). Gregorio Correr, James Calfhill, and the Early Elizabethan Affordances of Senecan Tragedy. Translation and Literature, 29(1), 117-135. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0412
Recent Publications
Perry, C. (2022). Titus’s revenge and/as imperial roman satire. Explorations in Renaissance culture, 48(1), 40-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/23526963-04801002
Perry, C. (2020). Gregorio Correr, James Calfhill, and the Early Elizabethan Affordances of Senecan Tragedy. Translation and Literature, 29(1), 117-135. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0412
Perry, C. (2020). Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866316
Perry, C. (2019). New Directions After Decorum: Self-Performance and Political Liminality in Antony and Cleopatra. In D. Lovascio (Ed.), Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader (pp. 113-132). (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides). The Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350049932.ch-005
Perry, C. (2019). Senecan Belatedness and Titus Andronicus. In F. Karim Cooper (Ed.), Titus Andronicus: The State of Play (pp. 15-36). (Arden Shakespeare The State of Play). The Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350027428.ch-001