David Bevington

Teaches at The Studio at NYCastings.com

David Bevington teaches drama at the University of Chicago, focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Jonson, Marlowe, Webster, Middleton, Dekker, etc.), as well as medieval drama and then the entire sweep of Western drama from Aeschylus and Sophocles down to Caryl Churchill and Tom Stoppard. In addition to courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and medieval drama, He also teaches in Theater and Performance Studies ((variously with Heidi Coleman, Director of University Theater, John Muse, English Department, and Drew Dir, resident dramaturg at Court Theatre) a two-quarter sequence called The History and Theory of Drama from the 5th century B.C. down to the present day. He is the Chair of Theater and Performance Studies. His critical writing and scholarship reflect to a large degree these same passionate interests. He is a senior editor of the Revels Plays, which publishes critical editions of plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries, and he is senior editor of a series of paperbacks called Revels Student Editions. Until recently and for many years he taught in a core humanities course at the University of Chicago on Greek Thought and Literature, from Homer and Herodotus down to Aristophanes and Plato.