UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 37, Page 4
July 22, 1993
Faculty books featured in latest Delaware Press releases

     The University of Delaware Press has seven new publications in the
fields of art history, literature, theatre and history. Four are by
University of Delaware faculty. All titles are available at the University
Bookstore.

     Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Eastern and Central European
Studies is the first in a series of international volumes published by the
press. Editors Jerzy Limon and Jay L. Halio hope to bring to a wider
audience the works of non Anglo-American scholars and critics whose
contributions might otherwise pass unnoticed. Written by scholars from
Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, many of the essays focus
almost entirely upon Shakespeare's plays and cover such topics as the
development of Shakespearean tragedy, subjectivity and dramatic discourse
and theatrical criticism.
     Limon, a well-known Polish scholar and novelist who teaches at the
University of Gdansk, has recently published The Masque of Stuart Culture
with the press. Halio is professor of English at the University and chairs
the Board of Editors of the press.

     The 24 essays by distinguished Franklinists in Reappraising Benjamin
Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective comprise the most ambitious single
collection of essays on Franklin ever assembled. Editor J. A. Leo Lemay has
compiled essays that discuss Franklin as humorist, scientist, journalist
and philosopher, as well as those which examine his portraits, knowledge of
music and work as a publisher and bookseller.
     Lemay, H. F. du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the
University, is working on a six-volume biography of Benjamin Franklin.

     The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley, Vol. 2: Poems (1656), Part 1:
The Mistress, edited by Thomas O. Calhoun, Laurence Heyworth and J. Robert
King, thoroughly investigates the popularity of the 84 poems and songs that
comprise The Mistress, generally regarded as the most popular book of its
time. The complete text of The Mistress and the musical settings for 60 of
the poems are reprinted in this volume, along with textual notes and
commentary. The first volume in the series centered on Cowley's juvenalia
and political poems, and future volumes will discuss his Pindarique Odes,
essays, prose, letters and biography.
     Calhoun is professor of English and J. Robert King is professor
emeritus of music at the University and Laurence Heyworth is Head of
Research for a London securities firm.

     In Theatre to Change Men's Souls: The Artistry of Adrian Hall, Jeannie
Marlin Woods explores the creative process of a stage director who has been
a major force in the development of the American regional theatre since the
1960s. The author traces the history of Hall's career, including his
decision to forsake commercial in favor of regional theatre and his ongoing
efforts to develop an audience with a hunger for theatre. By examining
Hall's most significant productions, she also takes the reader into the
rehearsal room to see his day-to-day technique at work.
     Woods is a director, actress, and author of various reviews and a book
on Maureen Stapleton.

     John O'Donovan (1921-85)-Irish playwright, journalist, scholar,
broadcaster, raconteur and wit-has been described as "the despair of his
enemies, the delight of his friends and sometimes vice versa." The four
plays reprinted in Jonathan, Jack, and GBS, edited by Robert Hogan, present
O'Donovan at his most thoughtful, ribald, and moving. Taken together they
offer persuasive evidence for O'Donovan's position as one of the few
eminent Irish dramatists to emerge after Sean O'Casey and before Brian
Friel.
     Robert Hogan, professor of English at the University, has written
numerous books, the most recent of which is The Years of O'Casey (1992),
also published by the press.

     The essays and commentaries presented in The Portrait in
Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Ellen G. Miles, originated at a
conference of the same name that was held at the National Portrait Gallery
of the Smithsonian Institution in 1987. These authors offer a number of new
directions for research in colonial and late 18th-century America. They
also raise significant questions about methodologies useful for
interpreting cultural objects.
     Ellen G. Miles, curator of painting and sculpture at the National
Portrait Gallery, has published extensively on colonial and 19th-century
American portraits.

     In A History of the Korean People: 1800 to the Present, Robert T.
Oliver offers an objectively balanced history that narrates the struggles
of Koreans to resist imperialistic pressures exerted against them by Japan,
China, Russia, England and the both helpful and hurtful role of their ally,
the United States. Emphasizing the character, beliefs and sentiments of the
people and the personalities of their pivotal leaders, Oliver vividly
chronicles the full scope and progress of Korea, from its near-primitive
beginnings to present-day prosperity.
     Oliver has traveled extensively in Asia and taught in universities in
Korea and Japan. For 15 years he served as counselor to Korean President
Syngman Rhee. He has also written several books, one of which, Leadership
in America, was published by the press in 1989.
                                        -Cathleen A. Gibbons