About
Dr. Pangallo is a former Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and currently assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. His primary areas of interest are early modern drama and theater history, with a focus upon connections between text, performance, and reception. He also has an interest in dramatic literature generally and the social and intellectual history of the book. His research focuses upon the complex connections between plays and the playhouses from which they emerged – their performance practices, modes of authorship and textual transmission, audiences and experiences of reception, and place within their historical context. As a scholar and a teacher, he is interested especially in the edges of theatrical and literary history, both how those edges transform our understanding of the center and how they can serve as entirely new centers themselves.
Dr. Pangallo’s first book, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater (2017, University of Pennsylvania Press), focuses upon theatrical audiences and amateur playwriting in early modern England. Currently he is working on two books. “Theatrical Failure in Early Modern England” explores the causes and productive results of aesthetic, commercial, and material failure in domains such as the professional stage, court masque, household entertainment, and university play. “Strange Company: Foreign Performers in Medieval and Early Modern England” surveys the history of performers who toured to England from Spain, Italy, France, Ireland, Scotland, the Ottoman Empire, and elsewhere, establishing the role that they played in the development of early English theatrical culture and situating England’s theatrical Renaissance as one part of a global and more complexly transnational, transcultural theatrical Renaissance.
Dr. Pangallo has designed and taught courses in early modern literature, dramatic literature, theater history, and book history at Bates College, Mount Holyoke College, Westfield State University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Salem State University.
He has been the recipient of grants from the Bibliographical Society of the United Kingdom, The Malone Society, and the Shakespeare Association of America, as well as a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship and Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.
Outside of his academic pursuits, Dr. Pangallo is a director and dramaturge and has worked for Salem Theatre Company as its founding artistic director, Rebel Shakespeare Company, and the Globe Theatre in London. He is also an award-winning book-collector. Education
BA, Bates College (2003)
MA, King’s College London (2006)
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2012) Publications
Books
Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming in August 2017.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Notes
“Trumpeters from China in Bristol in 1577?”. Early Theatre 20.1 (June 2017): 119–24
“A Pirate’s Verse for the Secretary of State: Sir Francis Verney’s 1606 Poem to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury”. Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 16.1 (Winter 2016): 3–49.
“‘I will keep and character that name’: Dramatis Personae Lists in Early Modern Manuscript Plays”. Early Theatre 18.2 (December 2015): 87–118. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.12745/et.18.2.1166.
“The Pirate, the Pirate-Hunter, and the Beginning of Early Modern Play Editing”. English Literary Renaissance 45.1 (February 2015): 146–71. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6757.12041.
“Mr Pett Identified? A Forgotten Early Modern Playwright”. Early Modern Literary Studies 17:1 (May 2014).
https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/view/93/116.
“‘Mayn’t a Spectator write a Comedy?’ Playwriting Playgoers in Early Modern Drama”. Review of English Studies 64:263 (February 2013): 39–69. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgs035.
“‘Hamlet cannot finish the sentence’: Translating Shakespeare into ‘Modern English’”. The Shakespeare Newsletter 59:1 No. 277 (Spring/Summer 2009): 31–6.
“Correction to Plomer’s Biography of Thomas Harper”. Notes & Queries 256.2 (June 2009): 203–5.
“At.óow or l s’ aatí át? Language Revitalization, Cultural Creation, and the Tlingit Macbeth.” Translation and Interpreting Studies 3.1 (Spring 2008): 3–29.
“A New Source for a Speech in The Launching of the Mary”. Notes & Queries 251.4 (December 2006): 528–31.
Entries on “Unfinished Play by Richard Norwood” (2011), “The Resolute Queen” (2011), “The Battle of Hexham” (2013), “King Ebrauk with All His Sons” (2015), “The Parliament of Birds” (under review), “Play of the Ancestor of Sir John Holles” (under review) for the Lost Plays Database. Eds., Roslyn L. Knutson and David McInnis. University of Melbourne.
Book Chapters
“‘Unseen things seen’: Digital Editing and Early Modern Manuscript Plays”. Invited for Early British Drama in Manuscript. Eds. Laura Estill and Tamara Atkin. Brepols, under review.
“Nonprofessional Playwrights” in A New Companion to Renaissance Drama. Eds. Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas W. Hopper. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 598–611.
“Dramatic Meter”. The Oxford Handbook ofShakespeare. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. Oxford UP, 2012. 100–25. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0007.
“‘Seldome seene’: Observations from Editing The Launching of the Mary”. Divining Thoughts: Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies. Eds. Peter Orford et al. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 1–16.
Editions
The Amazon by Edward Herbert, for The Malone Society Collections XVII. With Cristina Malcolmson and Eugene Hill. Manchester University Press, 2016.
The Tragedy of Antigone, the Theban Princesse by Thomas May, for The Malone Society. Manchester University Press, 2016.
The English Traveller and
The Royal King and the Loyal Subject, for
The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. 5. General editor, Grace Ioppolo. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
The Launching of the Mary, or the Seaman’s Honest Wife by Walter Mountfort. Digital Renaissance Editions <digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca>. Coordinating Editor, Brett Hirsch; General Textual Editor, Will Sharpe. Forthcoming.
Titus Andronicus. Assistant Editor, to William Proctor Williams, for the New Variorum Shakespeare (MLA). In progress.
General editor,
Stages of Transition: The 1603-1604 London Theater Season, an anthology of plays and other texts from 1603-1604. In progress for scholarly digital press Open Book Publishers.
Articles for General Readers
“You’re Liars All: Donald Trump as Shakespeare’s Saddest Villain”. The Shakespeare Standard. February 10, 2017.
http://theshakespearestandard.com/youre-liars-donald-trump-shakespeares-saddest-villain/Projects
Theatrical Failure in Early Modern England.
Strange Company: Foreign Performers in Medieval and Early Modern England.
