Mathew Martin

Mathew Martin’s primary research area is early modern English professional drama. Author of Between Theater and Philosophy, Dr. Martin has presented papers and published on a wide range of early modern English authors, including Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. He is currently working on a book-length project on Christopher Marlowe and the aesthetics of trauma. He is also co-editing a collection of essays with Professor James Allard, entitled Staging Pain: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre, 1500-1800 .

Martin, Mathew R. “Wasting Time in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene.” Studies in Philology 105.1 (Winter 2008): forthcoming.

---. “Jack Wilton and the Jews: The Ambivalence of Anti-Semitism in Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller.” The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Graham Roebuck and Mary Silcox. London: Associated University Presses; Newark: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming.

---. Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. London: Associated University Presses; Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001.

---. “Play and Plague in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.” English Studies in Canada 26.4 (December 2000): 393-408.

---. “‘[B]egot between tirewomen and tailors’: Commodified Self-Fashioning in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term.” Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (May 1999): 2.1-36.