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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Dr Régis Augustus Bars Closel is a Associtate Professor at UFSM . He concluded his post-doctoral fellow at USP, supported by FAPESP. Closel has received several grants and scholarships for his research and translation of Sir Thomas More, including a one-year period (2013-2014) scholarship as a visiting researcher at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, all of them provided by Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) as part of his PhD qualification at UNICAMP, Brazil. At the Shakespeare Institute, his research plan was supervised by the play specialist and editor, Professor John Jowett. As a result of his research there, Closel provided an editorial solution to a long-standing crux in the plays corpus published in Notes Queries (2014). He published several articles and book chapters and gave many papers about 'Sir Thomas More', Shakespeare and Early Modern England and in the United Kingdom, North America, Japan, Brazil and Europe. Also, Régis coedited two books, on Mores Utopia (Onze Vezes Utopia, 2011) and on Brazilian Shakespearean Studies (Shakespeare 450 Anos, 2014). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Extreme changes define the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England. From the break with Rome to the English Civil War, comprehensive reforms reach central aspects of everyday life. Among them, there is a fundamental shift: the alteration in the relationship between land and society. The enclosure of the fields and the Dissolution of the Monasteries are two examples of historical ev…
Well-known and controversial is the history of Thomas More (1478-1535). Eminent historical person, his execution, ordered by the same King of whom he had been a close friend for years, certainly provoked that the mere mention of his name was not comfortable in the political universe ruled by Henry VIII's daughter. Surprisingly, shortly after his death, a play entitled The Booke of Sir Tho…
Several plays in the English Renaissance, from the anonymous Arden of Faversham (1592) to Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew (1641), depict land-related problems. These involve the enclosure of the common fields, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the commodification of land. The last aspect, which is the focus of this research abroad project, is most visible in plays that take place in t…
The Elizabethan plays written during last decade of the XVIth century are generally very concerned with English history. It is important to remember, however, that the era which is so often depicted in these plays, such as Richard II and Richard III, was very distant from the contemporary audience in Tudor England. The history of that illustrious family, the Tudors, remains very popular t…
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