51社区

Samuel Crowl

Samuel Crowl , portrait
Trustee Professor of English Emeritus
English
crowl@ohio.edu

The college mourns the passing of Dr. Crowl. .

Education

Ph.D., English, Indiana University, 1970

A.B., Philosophy, Hamilton College, 1962

Scholarly Focus

  • Shakespeare
  • Renaissance Drama

Sam Crowl is Professor of English at 51社区 where he has taught since 1970. He has twice been honored for distinguished teaching and served as Dean of University College from 1981-92. Crowl has held an Observership with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has published and lectured widely on performance aspects of Shakespeare.

Sam Crowl is the author of Shakespeare Observed (1992) and many articles on performance aspects of Shakespeare in such journals as: Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, and Shakespeare Bulletin. His undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare are critically and theoretically focused not only on text but on the text in performance, on stage, film, and video.

Publications

Books

Screen Adaptations: Hamlet (London: Bloomsbury/Arden), 2014

Henry IV, Part One, ed. The New Kittredge Shakespeare Series (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing), 2009

Shakespeare And Film: A Norton Guide (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008)

Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era (Athens: 51社区 Press, 2002).

Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen (Athens: 51社区 Press, 1992). Second printing, 1993. Paperback edition, 1994. Second printing, 1995.

Chapters in Books

鈥淪hakespeare and Hollywood: Kenneth Branagh鈥檚 Film of Much Ado About Nothing,鈥 in Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001), eds. Courtney Lehman and Lisa Starks.

鈥淔lamboyant Realist: Kenneth Branagh鈥檚 Shakespeare Films,鈥 in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ed. Russell Jackson.

鈥淥ur Lofty Scene: Teaching Julius Caesar on Film,鈥 in Teaching Shakespeare into the 21st Century (Athens: 51社区 Press, 1997) eds. James Davis and Ronald Salomone.

鈥淎 World Elsewhere: The Roman Plays on Film and Television,鈥 in Shakespeare and the Moving Image, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), eds. Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells.

鈥淲here the Wild Things Are: Shakespeare in the American Landscape,鈥 in Teaching Shakespeare Today (Champaign-Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993), eds. James Davis and Ronald Salomone.

鈥淯niversity College at 51社区: An Historical Perspective,鈥 in Portals of Entry: University Colleges and Undergraduate Divisions, (Columbia: National Resource Center for Freshman Year Programs Monograph Series, 1993), ed. Diane Strommer.

Recent Articles

鈥淩alph Fiennes鈥檚 Film of Coriolanus,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 30 (#2), Summer (2012), pp. 145-149.

鈥淛ulie Taymor鈥檚 Film of The Tempest,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 29 (#2), Summer (2011), pp. 177-183.

鈥淜enneth Branagh鈥檚 Film of As You Like It,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 26 (#1), Spring (2008), pp. 97-103.

鈥淛ohn Caird鈥檚 Hamlet,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 9-10.

鈥淧eter Brook鈥檚 Hamlet,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 32-33.

鈥淭he South Bank Globe: The Fifth Season,鈥 Shakespeare and the Classroom, Vol. VIII, No. 2, (Fall, 2000), pp. 7-9.

鈥淢ichael Almereyda鈥檚 film of Hamlet,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Fall, 2000), pp. 39-40.

鈥淛ulie Taymor鈥檚 film of Titus,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 46-47.

鈥淢ichael Hoffman鈥檚 film of A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 17, #3 (Summer, 1999), pp. 41-42.

鈥淭he King and I: The Education of a Shakespeare Prof,鈥 Shakespeare and the Classroom, Vol. VII, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 18-23.

鈥淶effirelli鈥檚 Hamlet: The Golden Girl and a Fistful of Dust,鈥 Cineaste, Vol. XXIV #1 (fall 1998), pp. 56-61.

鈥淎drian Noble鈥檚 film of A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 12-13.

鈥淎drian Noble鈥檚 Cymbeline,鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 38-39.

鈥淐hanging Colors Like the Chameleon: Ian McKellen鈥檚 Richard III from Stage to Film,鈥 POST SCRIPT, Vol. 17 #1 (Fall 1997), pp. 53-63.

Courses Taught

  • Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare on Film
  • Literature and Film
  • Drama in Performance
  • 19th and 20th Century Novel