James P. Hammersmith, Associate Professor, earned his
PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He specializes in Renaissance
Drama, Textual Criticism, and Composition. He is an associate editor
of The Bantam Shakespeare and textual consultant for the HarperCollins
Shakespeare, both edited by David Bevington. He has won teaching
awards from the Student Government Association and from the Burlington-Northern
Foundation. In his other life he is an amateur luthier.
Representative Publications
"The Whole Art of Plowing." TEXT 10 (1997): 31-40.
"The Proof-reading of the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio of 1647," a series of six essays running in volumes 82 and 83 of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1988-1989).
"Frivolous Trifles and Weighty Tomes: Early Proof-Reading at London, Oxford, and Cambridge." Studies in Bibliography 38 (1985): 236-251.
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