Frank W.Brownlow

Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English

Specialization
English Renaissance literature including Shakespeare; music and poetry

F.W. Brownlow, Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English, teaches courses at Mount Holyoke in Shakespeare, the Renaissance, English literary history, and the baroque in English literature.

Brownlow has written books on Shakespeare and Robert Southwell and edited John Skelton's The Book of the Laurel (1991). His most recent essay "Performance and Reality at the Court of Elizabeth I" appeared in The Mysteries of Elizabeth I (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). Brownlow's numerous reviews cover mostly contemporary British subjects, including pieces on Malcolm Muggeridge, Cyril Connolly, and W. B. Yeats. He is currently at work on a book about Elizabeth I and Richard Topcliffe, while continuing to edit Skelton and Southwell.

Selected Publications

Two Shakespearean Sequences (1977)
The Book of the Laurel (1991)
Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham (1993)
Robert Southwell (1996)

News Links

"All Donne," College Street Journal, January 24, 2003