https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7711-2877
Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama, Ethics, Aristotle, Philosophy
I specialize in Shakespeare, ethics, and the reception of classical philosophy in the early modern era. My particular interests are in Aristotelianism (in all its variety) and moral philosophy (across various traditions). I’m especially fascinated by the ways classical philosophy finds unique expression on the popular stage — and by the ethical valences these kinds of appropriations hold. My current project, tentatively titled Shakespeare and the Communal Ethics of Intention, examines the ethical demands the unknowable intentions of others put on moral agents in Shakespearean drama.
2022 journal article
“'Strange Serious Wantoning:' Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge"
Renaissance Papers. https://www.academia.edu/88245444/_Strange_Serious_Wantoning_Early_Modern_Chess_Manuals_and_the_Ethics_of_Virtuous_Subterfuge_Christopher_Crosbie_
2021 book
Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage
2019 book
Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage
2018 article
Renaissance suppliants: Poetry, antiquity, reconciliation
Modern Philology, Vol. 115, pp. E219–222.
2017 chapter
"Refashioning Fable through the Baconian Essay: De sapientia veterum and Mythologies of the Early Modern Natural Philosopher"
In D. Flothow, S. Coelsch-Foisner, & M. Oppolzer (Eds.), The Essay: Forms and Transformations. https://www.academia.edu/35826710/_Refashioning_Fable_through_the_Baconian_Essay_De_sapientia_veterum_and_Mythologies_of_the_Early_Modern_Natural_Philosopher_Christopher_Crosbie_
Ed(s): D. Flothow, S. Coelsch-Foisner & M. Oppolzer
2016 chapter
"State of the Art: Current Critical Approaches to The Revenger's Tragedy"
In B. Walsh (Ed.), The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader. https://www.academia.edu/35843837/_State_of_the_Art_Current_Critical_Approaches_to_The_Revengers_Tragedy_Christopher_Crosbie_
Ed(s): B. Walsh
2016 chapter
The State of the Art: Current Critical Approaches to The Revenger's Tragedy
2015 journal article
Publicizing the Science of God: Milton's Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge
Renascence.
2015 journal article
Publicizing the Science of God: Milton's Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge
2015 journal article
Publicizing the science of God: Milton's raphael and the boundaries of knowledge
Renascence, 67(4), 239–260.
2014 chapter
Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives
(H. C. ed. Robert DeMaria Jr., Ed.). https://www.academia.edu/9047584/_Francis_Bacon_and_Aristotelian_Afterlives_Christopher_Crosbie_
Ed(s): H. ed. Robert DeMaria Jr.
2014 journal article
The Longleat Manuscript Reconsidered: Shakespeare and the Sword of Lath
English Literary Renaissance, 44(2), 221–240.
2014 journal article
The Longleat Manuscript Reconsidered: Shakespeare and the Sword of Lath
2013 journal article
The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation
Renaissance Papers. https://www.academia.edu/9047718/_The_Comedy_of_Errors_Haecceity_and_the_Metaphysics_of_Individuation_Christopher_Crosbie_
2013 journal article
The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation
2012 review
Deathly experiments: A study of icons and emblems of mortality in Christopher Marlowe's plays.
[Review of ]. Sixteenth Century Journal, 43(2), 458–459.
2012 article
Women and revenge in Shakespeare: Gender; genre, and ethics
Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 63, pp. 253–256.
2009 journal article
Philosophies of Retribution: Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster and the Revenge Tragedy Genre
2008 journal article
Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy
English Literary Renaissance.
2008 journal article
Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy
2008 article
Rhetorical readings, dark comedies, and Shakespeare's problem plays
Comparative Drama, Vol. 42, pp. 246–249.
2008 article
Science, literature and rhetoric in early modern England
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, pp. 1406–1407.
2007 journal article
Fixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value
Shakespeare Quarterly.
2007 journal article
Fixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value
1999 journal article
Goodly Physic: Disease, Purgation, and Anatomical Display in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
1999 journal article
Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I
2008 - present
