Dr Ted Tregear

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3063

Email

tbbt1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Ted Tregear did his BA at Trinity College, Cambridge, and his MSt at Hertford College, Oxford, before returning to Cambridge for his PhD. After finishing his doctorate in 2019, he stayed on in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. He joined St Andrews in September 2022.

Research areas

Ted's work focuses on early modern poetry and drama, especially Shakespeare, with a particular interest in the relationship between literature and philosophy in early modern England. His first monograph, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. He is currently at work on a second monograph, tentatively entitled What is Metaphysical Poetry?, which explores the distinctive affinity between poetry and metaphysics in seventeenth-century literature. His writing has appeared in Review of English Studies, Studies in Philology, SEL, Spenser Review, Cambridge Quarterly and elsewhere.

Selected publications

• Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603

  Tregear, T., 13 Apr 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 320 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Hope against hope: Abraham Cowley and the metaphysics of poetry

  Tregear, T., 8 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: English Literary History. 90, 4, p. 979-1006 4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Shakespeare's metaphysical poem: allegory, metaphysics, and aesthetics in 'The Phoenix and Turtle'

  Tregear, T., 1 Oct 2023, In: Review of English Studies. 74, 316, p. 635-651 17 p., hgad055.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The work of conjoining

  Tregear, T., 2022, In: The Spenser Review. 52, 1, 4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Marvels and commonplaces in the Elizabethan anthologies

  Tregear, T., Jan 2021, In: Classical Receptions Journal. 13, 1, p. 49-66

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Music at the Close: Richard II in the Elizabethan Anthologies

  Tregear, T., 30 Sept 2019, In: Studies in Philology. 116, 4, p. 696-727

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mourning Thomas Kyd's Lost Works

  Tregear, T., 7 Jun 2018, In: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 58, 2, p. 307-330

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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