Professor MacDonald P. Jackson, ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow (January to June 2005)
Professor of English at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, MacDonald Jackson specialises in English Literature and poetry, well known for his work on Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and Shakespeare.
During his time at the School, he was working mainly on the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of 'the Works of John Webster', one of the greatest tragic damatists after Shakespeare. Professor Jackson also used his time in London to prepare the final stages towards the publication of the Oxford edition of 'the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton'. He spent some time on revising and expanding his various articles on Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as further ideas in his 'Francis Meres and the Cultural Contexts of Shakespeare's Rival Poet Sonnets'. Finally Professor Jackson aimed to reexamine Shakespeare's beginnings as a dramatists which would take into account and seek to refine recent evidence of the collaborative authoriship of relationship with Nashe, Peele, Greene, Marlowe and others.
Professor Jackson gave a seminar in the Dean's Seminar on March 2nd 2005, entitled "Cultural Contexts of Shakespeare’s Rival Poet Sonnets’. He also gave a lecture on June 1st 2005, entitled "Augmenting Shakespeare: A New Play-Scene for the Collected Works"
