Rate My Professor James Mardock

Mardock's research interests encompass Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Jonson, drama, theater history, and the Protestant Reformation. He authored Our Scene is London: Jonson's City and the Space of the Author (Routledge, 2008), analyzing Jonson's representation of urban space as part of his authorial strategy. Mardock edited Henry V: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition (Broadview Press, 2014), co-edited Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England with Kathryn McPherson (Duquesne University Press, 2014), and contributed with Eric Rasmussen to 'What does textual evidence reveal about the author?' in Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has published articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Dickens, and John Taylor the water-poet. As general textual editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, he supports scholarly access to early modern drama. His current projects include a book-length study of Calvin's influence on early modern drama. Mardock serves as house dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater, directed productions of Henry V and The Winter's Tale, performed roles such as Claudius in Hamlet (2011), and organizes The Blood, Love, and Rhetoric School, staging readings of early plays like 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Jew of Malta, and Gammer Gurton's Needle.