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Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Rebecca Bushnell writes and teaches about the genre of tragedy and early modern English culture. (including education and gardens).

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Books:

• Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays (Cornell 1988)
• Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (Cornell 1990)
• A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (Cornell 1996)
• King Lear and Macbeth (Pegasus Press 1996)
• Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (Cornell 2003)
• A Companion to Tragedy (Blackwell 2005)
• Tragedy: A Short Introduction (Blackwell 2007)

Courses:

Professor Bushnell uses the Web and other electronic technologies in the teaching of literary research and method and the culture of the early modern period.

• English 709: Renaissance Languages
• English 271: Political Theater
• English 305: Literary Research and Method
• English 201: Major British Writers I
• Elizabeth I
• English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies
  This course uses the Web and other electronic technology to redesign the way we approach teaching the culture of the early modern period. This course is based on an earlier version, English 30, taught in the fall of 1995. (Its Web page was designed by Jamey Saeger, now at Vassar College.)

In addition, in collaboration with James Saeger, Michael Ryan and James Kearney, Professor Bushnell has developed the "virtual" version of the Furness Shakespeare Library located in the Center for Electronic Text and Image of the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania.