Kurt Schreyer
Assistant Professor
458 Lucas Hall
314-516-5500
schreyerk@umsl.edu
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Notre Dame
Kurt Schreyer teaches courses on Shakespeare and early English drama. His interests extend to a wide variety of genres and texts across the traditional medieval/Renaissance disciplinary divide, from Chaucer to Milton, and from epic and romance to devotional lyric. In his teaching he tries to foster students’ curiosity by “making the Renaissance strange” rather than familiar or relevant—underscoring the historical, cultural, and linguistic differences between pre-modern England and our own society. He is currently at work on a book entitled Banning Shakespeare: Sixteenth-century Histories of the Early English Stage where he argues that Shakespeare’s stage separated and distinguished itself from the mystery play tradition even as it recovered and exploited its material vestiges.