Frank Nicholas Clary
nclary@smcvt.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. -- University of Notre Dame (1971)
B. A. -- La Salle College (1966)
NEH Folger Institute -- Ceremony and
Text in the Renaissance, Thomas Greene (1991)
NEH Seminar -- Milton and the Fall into
Reading, Stanley Fish (1980)
NEH Seminar -- Robert Lowell and Shakespeare
at Sonnets, Monroe Spears (1975)
EXPERIENCE:
Professor of English, Saint Michael's
College (1985)
Department Chairperson (1988-91; interim
replacement, 1993-94)
Associate Professor (Tenure), Saint Michael's
College (1975)
Assistant Professor of English, Saint
Michael's College (1970)
PUBLICATIONS:
"Multiple-Text Hamlet: Ignorance in No Longer Bliss." The Shakespeare Newsletter,
59:1, No. 277 (Spring/Summer 2009): 29-30.
“Maclise and Macready: Collaborating
Illustrators of Hamlet.” The Shakespeare
Bulletin 25. No. 1 (Spring 2007): 33-59.
"Having It Both Ways: Reading Two
Early Acting Editions of Hamlet." The Shakespeare Newsletter,
56:1, No. 268 (Spring/Summer 2006): 7-8; 28-30.
Preface to Ida Washington’s translation
of The Shakespeare Studies of Otto Ludwig (Andrew Mellon Press,
2006)
hamletworks.org. Hamlet database,
launched April, 2005.
“Charles Gildon’s Editorial Apparatus
and Nicholas Rowe’s Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. Silver
Jubilee Volume, 25 (2003): 156-174.
“Pictures in the Closet: Properties and Staging in Hamlet 3.4,” Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New Directions. Ed. Hardin L. Aasand (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003): 170-188.
“‘Whether 'tis nobler in the mind’:
Multiple-Text Hamlet in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Shakespeare
and the Classroom (Fall 2002): 28-35.
“Teaching Hamlet with a Variorum
Edition,” Teaching Approaches to Hamlet, Ed. Bernice W. Kliman.
(MLA Press, 2001): 62-65.
“‘The very cunning of the scene’:
Hamlet's Divination and the King's Occulted Guilt.” and “Hamlet
and the Mirror up to History: Allegory, Analogue, and Allusion.”
Co-authored with Hardin L. Aasand. Thirty-one New Essays on Hamlet
(Extracted from Hamlet Studies Vols. 1-21), Ed. R. W. Desai (Nai
Sarak, Delhi: Doaba House, 2000): 318-335 and 416-444.
“Hamlet and the Mirror up to
History: Allegory, Analogue, and Allusion.” Co-authored
with Hardin L. Aasand. Hamlet Studies. 21 (Summer 1999):
20-54.
“Hamlet's Mousetrap and the Play-within-the-Anecdote
of Plutarch: An Instance of Erasure in Eighteenth-Century Editions.”
In Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth
Century. Ed. Joanna Gondris (Deleware UP, 1998): 164-187.
“‘The very cunning of the scene’: Hamlet's Divination and the King's Occulted Guilt.” Hamlet Studies. 18 (1996): 7-28.
“‘Imagine No Worse of Them’: Hippolyta
on the Ritual Threshold in Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream.” In Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance,
Ed. Douglas Rutledge (University of Delaware Press, 1996): 155-166.
“Reformation and Its Counterfeit: The
Recovery of Meaning in Henry IV, part 1.” In Ambiguities
in Literature and Film, Ed. Hans P. Braendlin (Florida State University
Press, 1988): 76-94.
“‘A Great Reckoning in a Little
Room’: Robert Lowell's Visions and Revisions,” Missouri Philological
Association Bulletin (1977).
“The Vol and the Pone: A Reconsideration
of Jonson's Volpone,” ELN. 10 (December 1972): 102-107.
REVIEWS:
Review of Marvin W. Hunt's Looking for Hamlet New York: MacMillan Palgrave. Shakespeare Quarterly (Fall, 2008):
343-345.
Review of Jeffrey Knapp's Shakespeare’s
Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England Chicago:
U of Chicago Press. Sixteenth Century Journal (Fall, 2003):
908-910.
Review of Alan R. Young’s Hamlet
and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900. Newark: U of Delaware Press.
Shakespeare Quarterly (Fall, 2003): 344-346.
Review of Scott McMillin's The First
Quarto of Othello. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Sixteenth Century
Journal (Winter, 2002): 1117-1119.
Review of Robert Lanier Reid’s Shakespeare’s
Tragic Forms: Spirit in the Wheel. U. Delaware Press. Sixteenth
Century Journal (Fall, 2001): 898-899.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Pre-performance Talk. Guthrie Theatre
and The Acting Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, April 16, 2010.
Pre-performance Talk. Guthrie Theatre
and The Acting Company’s production of Henry V, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, May 12, 2009.
Pre-performance Talk. Aquila Theatre
Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet, University of Vermont
Lane Series, May 2, 2007.
Pre-performance Talk, Aquila Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet, University of Vermont Lane Series, April 9, 2006.
“Daniel Maclise’s Illumination of
the Play Scene in Hamlet," Shakespeare Association of America
Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 2006.
“Hamlet’s Temptation to Remembrance and Revenge," Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Bermuda, March 2005.
“Verses added out of the old edition”:
Single-text Passages in a Multiple-text Environment,” Shakespeare
Association of America, New Orleans, 2004.
“Romeo and Juliet: The Tragic
Deaths of Young People,” Visiting Lecture and Discussion, Colchester
High School,, April 18, 2003.
“Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Pre-performance talk for Culture Club, March 28, 2003.
“Shakespeare’s Multiple-text Plays:
To Conflate or Not to Conflate, That is the Question,” Vermont Humanities
Council, Autumn Conference, Star-Crossed and Moonstruck Lovers, November
8-9, 2002.
“ ‘Canoniz’d Bones Have Burst Their Cerements’: Hamlet Acting Editions from Betterton to Bell’s Shakespeare,” International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, August, 2002.
“Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew,” Pre-performance panel for Lane Series, Flynn Theater,
April, 21, 2002.
“Modeling Conversion and Prospero’s
Forgivenesses in The Tempest:,” Pre-performance talk for Culture
Club, October 14, 2001.
“Tomasso Salvini and the Internationalization
of Hamlet,” 7th World Shakespeare Congress,Valencia,
Spain, April, 2001.
“Editing Hamlet: 400 Years of Contestation,”
with Bernice W. Kliman, Hardin A. Aasand, and Eric C. Rasmussen. Nassau
Community College Renaissance Workshop/Columbia University Shakespeare
Seminar, New York, 1999.
“Pictures in the Closet: Properties
and Staging in Hamlet 3.4,” Shakespeare Association of America,
San Francisco, 1999.
“Early Acting Editions of Hamlet,”
Symposium on Four Centuries of Editing Shakespeare, University of Nevada
at Reno, 1999.
“Hamlet: Story Roots and the Flowering
of Adaptations,” Visiting Lecture, Montpelier High School, 1999.
“Robert Wilks and the Interim Hamlet,”
International Shakespeare Association,Stratford-upon
“Garrick's ‘Altered’ Hamlet
and the Editorial Rivalries of the 1770’s,” Shakespeare Association
of America, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998.
“The Loss of Innocents in Romeo
and Juliet,” Visiting Lecture, Calvert Hall High School, Baltimore
Maryland, 1998.
“Variations on the Variorum: Revisioning
Hamlet in 1773,” Shakespeare Association of America, Washington,
D.C., 1997.
“Hamlet through Looking-Glasses:
At Least Two Ways of Seeing,” Visiting Lecture Series, University
of New Hampshire, 1992.
“Mirrors and Looking-Glasses: A Reading
Context for the Hamlet Second Quarto,” Conference: Visions
and (Re)Visions in Literature and Film, Florida State University, 1992.
“Ghosts in Hamlet,” Faculty
Colloquium Series, Saint Michael's College, 1990.
“Death and the Unfamiliar: Cultural
Strangeness in Soyinka's Death and the King's
Horseman,” General Lecture, Freshman Studies Program, 1990.
“What Was It Like to See ‘The Murder
of Gonzago’ in Hamlet?,” Visiting Lecture, Burlington High
School, 1990.
“Jazzing Up ‘Pyramus and Thisby,’”
Conference: Ambiguities in Literature and Film, Florida State University,
1989.
“What Makes People Laugh?” Exploration
in Drama Series, Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues,
1984.
“Mis-Givings and Mis-Takings: The Aesthetics
of Attention in A Midsummer Night's
Dream,” Missouri Philological Association Meeting, 1983.
“Misreading Areopagitica: ‘The
Beginning of No Mean Endeavor,’” NEH Summer Seminar, 1980.
“‘A Journey in My Head’: Shakespeare's Sonnets 18-126 as Paradigm,” Symposium on Shakespeare, Saint Michael's College, 1973.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
New Variorum Hamlet, Bernice W.
Kliman, Coordinating Editor (with Hardin L. Aasand and Eric C. Rasmussen.
My responsibilities: Text and commentary collation (TLN 2023-2950),
including editions as well as extra-editorial material, and assessment
of each edition based on features of text section. Also Appendix:
Essay on Sources, Analogues and Influences (co-authoring with Hardin
L. Aasand), Essay on the Acting Editions of Hamlet, and smaller
items on other particulars, including specific characters and topical
matters particularly relevant in my section of the text. In addition,
supervision of four student aides each semester, funded by the College
at @$3000 per year. 1993-
Acting Edition of the RSC Hamlet
(1965-1996), directed by Sir Peter Hall. Co-editor, Peter Harrigan.
My responsibilities: Introduction, text, text variants, appendices.
1992-
AWARDS:
Honors Program Faculty Award, Saint Michael's College (2008-2009)
Gerald E. Dupont Award (Commencement
2005)
NEH (recipient with Bernice W. Kliman,
Hardin L. Aasand, and Eric C. Rasmussen) 3-year Preservation and Access
Fellowship 2002-2005 ($243,000). Project: The New Variorum Hamlet
Excellence in Scholarship (Academic Convocation
1999)
NEH (recipient with Bernice W. Kliman,
Hardin L. Aasand, and Eric C. Rasmussen) 2-year Preservation and Access
Fellowship 1997-2000 ($165,000). Project: The New Variorum Hamlet
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Research
Award, 1998 ($1500). Project: Hamlet in America and Related Research
for the New Variorum Hamlet
NEH (recipient with Bernice W. Kliman
and Hardin L. Aasand) 2-year Research Tools Fellowship, 1994-6 ($150,000):
Project. The New Variorum Hamlet
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Research
Award, Summer 1993 ($920). Project: Sources, Analogues, and Influences
Appendix for New Variorum Hamlet
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Research
Award, Fall 1991 ($1320). Project: Acting Edition of the Royal Shakespeare
Company’s 1965-66 Hamlet, directed by Sir Peter Hall
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Development
Award (co-recipient with Elizabeth Inness-Brown), Summer 1992 ($1750).
Project: Writing-across-the Curriculum Workshop
Saint Michael’s College Faculty Research
Award, Summer 1989 ($800). Project: Plays-within-Plays in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Hamlet
Excellence in Teaching Award (Academic
Convocation 1988)
Community Service Award (Commencement,
1985)
Gerald E. Dupont Award (Commencement
1980)
Student Recognition Award for Teaching
(Commencement 1975)
Outstanding Educators of America Award
(1975)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Year Fellowship
(1969-1970)
University Fellowship, University of
Notre Dame (1966-1969)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Coordinator of the Honors Program, Saint Michael's College, 2008-.
Manuscript evaluation: Collection of
Essays (prospective title Shared Space:
Rethinking the Sacred and Profane in
English Renaissance Literature, edited by Mary A. Papazian), 2006.
Advisory Board of SHAKSPER, February,
2005-.
Consultant: Vermont Council on the Humanities
planning meeting for Shakespeare Conference, November 8-9, 2002.
Editorial Reviewer/Consultant, The
Executionaer’s Daughter, Fiction for Young Readers, Henry Holt
Publishers, 1999
Chair, Literary Criticism Session, Vermont
Academy of Arts and Sciences Intercollegiate Symposium, 1998
Respondent, MMLA Session (“Shakespeare
in the Classroom,” Moderator: David George), October 1995
NEH Review Panel for 1995-1996 NEH Fellowships,
Summer 1995
External Examiner for M.A. Thesis (Paul MacDonald: “Macready, Irving, and Beerbohm-Tree:
Image and the Play Scene from Hamlet”),
Acadia University, July, 1995
Danforth Associates of New England (DANE),
1992-
Interim Associate Academic Dean, Saint
Michael's College, Spring 1992
Chair, Literary Criticism Session VAAS
Intercollegiate Symposium, 1992
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Freshman
Studies, 1988 and 1989
NEH Library Seminar: "The Individual and
the Community in Politics and Literature" for the Vermont Council on the Humanities,
Vermont, 1988
Assistant to the Academic Dean, Saint
Michael's College, 1982-1987
Chair, Literary Criticism Session VAAS
Intercollegiate Symposium, 1979
Vermont Report, Vermont ETV Introductory
Panel on the BBC Shakespeare Series, 1979
Discussion Moderator, Vermont Festival
of the Arts, 1977
Summer Shakespeare Program: Shakespeare--Understanding
Through Performance for Westfield College, London, 1977 and 1978
Vice President, Vermont Academy of Arts
and Sciences, 1977-1978
General Chair of the Vermont Academy
of Arts and Sciences Intercollegiate Symposium, 1976 and 1978
Trustee, Vermont Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 1975-1979
Chair, Literary Criticism Session, Vermont
Academy of Arts and Sciences Intercollegiate Symposium, 1975
Co-Chair, Vermont Renaissance Symposium
Co-hosted by Saint Michael's College and the University of Vermont,
1975
London Wintersession Seminar: Drama in
Performance for Saint Michael's College, 1975
Humanist Consultant, Vermont Educational
TV, 1975
Chair, Shakespeare Symposium at Saint
Michael's College, 1973