Department of English
Robert Yongue Turner
Emeritus Professor of English
Robert Yongue Turner, Emeritus Professor of English, passed away on January 16, 2021, at The Quadrangle in Haverford, PA. He was 93.
A specialist on Renaissance drama, Turner received his B.A. at Princeton University and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. During his forty years at Penn, he received a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in support of his scholarship. His central contribution to his field, Shakespeare’s Apprenticeship, was published in 1974 by the University of Chicago Press.
Professor Turner is survived by a cousin, Lillian J. Howland, of Gastonia, NC. The funeral and interment were private.
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Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
1993
Barbara Riebling
"The Drama of Counsel: Advice and Favor on the Tudor Stage"
1987
Jacquelyn Savani
"King Lear from the perspective of Ben Jonson's Satire"
1986
Susan Blair
"The Comedies of George Chapman: Saturnalian Progress to Self Knowledge"
Bruce Boehrer
""The Promiscuous Crowd": Representations of Incest in the Literature of the English Renaissance"
1984
Sister Nuala Cotter
"Thomas Dekker's Professional Skills of Characterization"
1977
Don Z. Block
"The Satiric Tragedies of Thomas Middleton"
1976
Russ McDonald
"A Study of Ben Jonson's Dependence upon Intrigue Comedy"
1975
Patrick Buckridge
"The Playful Drama of John Marston"
1973
Ronald J Palumbo
"The Distinctiveness of Marston's Dramatic Satire"
Keith D Slocum
"Ben Jonson's dramatic craft: a study of point of view in Jonson's major plays"
1971
George F Freije
"The Complex Art of George Chapman: A Study of the Tragedies"