Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr B J Sokol

Research interests

Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers, twentieth-century American literature, and the connections of literary studies with art history, legal history, physical science, and psychoanalysis.

Selected publications

With Mary Sokol, Shakespeare, Law and Marriage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003-4).
A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's The Tempest and Early Modern Epistemology (London: Associated University Presses, 2003).
With Mary Sokol, Shakespeare's Legal Language (London: Athlone Press 2000).
'Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies and Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Infinity' pp. 151-163 in Margaret Cavendish, A Princely Brave Woman, ed. Stephen Clucas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).
With Mary Sokol, 'Where Are We in Legal-Historical Studies of Shakespeare? The Case of Marriage and Property' pp. 249-271 in Shakespearean International Yearbook 2, eds. W R Elton and John M Mucciolo (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).