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ROBERT W. WITT
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Editor, The Chaffin Journal
Office: CASE ANNEX 383
Phone: 622-3080
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Mirror Within A Mirror: Ben Jonson and the Play-within.Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1975.
Of Comfort and Despair: Shakespeare's Sonnet Sequence. Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1979.
Combining Modes: Essays for Composition. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.
Hour in Paradise (A Novel). Huntington, WV: University Editions, 1993.
Toxic (A Novel). Huntington, WV: University Editions, 1995.
Breakfast at Noon (A Novel). Edmonton: Commonwealth Publications, Inc., 1997.
Descendants of John Witt, the Virginia Immigrant. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1998
Labor Day Weekend: A Deal of Cold Business (A Novel). Bloomington: 1st Books Library <www.1stbooks.com>, 1999.
Breakfast at Noon (Reprint). Philadelphia: Xlibris <www.xlibris.com>, 2001.
Approaching New Bethel (A Novel). Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2007.
The Isle of Wight Cooks: Some Descendants of Richard Cook, ca 1557-1598,
Bristol England. Westminster, MD:
Heritage Books, 2007.
Plays
Rocking Chair: A Drama in Two Acts. Louisville: Aran Press,
1987.
Produced by the Actors
Canteen, Unto These Hills Company, Cherokee, NC, July 1988.
The Importance of Being Married: A Comedy in Three Acts. Louisville: Aran Press, 1988.
Jocasta's View: A Drama in Two Acts. Readers' Theater Production by the Actors Canteen, Unto These Hills Company, Cherokee, NC, August1989.
In A Dark Corner: A Drama in Two Acts. Louisville: Aran Press, 1990.
In A Dark Corner: A Screenplay. Selected for individual development at a Screenwriting Workshop in Lexington, KY, May 1991. Workshop conducted by William Kelley.
That Lonesome Valley: A Drama in Two Acts. Readers' Theater Production by The Horse Cave Theatre, Horse Cave, KY, May 1991.
Second Readers' Theater Production by The Horse Cave Theatre, September 1991.
Third Readers' Theater Production by The Writers' Theatre, Farmingdale, NY, January 1995.
Fourth Readers' Theater Production by the Woman's BookClub (est. 1875), Oxford, Mississippi, December 1996.
Fifth Readers’ Theater Production by The Attic Ensemble, Jersey City, NJ, May 2005.
"Last Days: A Brief Play in One Act." Scripsit 9 (1992): 23-33.
Hamlet's Real Problem: A Brief Play in One Act. Readers' Theater Production by FirstStage, Los Angeles, California, May 1993.
Published in Wings Magazine 6.2 (1997): 54-58.
Dinner with Charlie, or A Brief Guide to a PC Diet. Readers' Theater Production by FirstStage, Los Angeles, California, May 1994.
Second Readers' Theater Production by Hollywood Boulevard
Theater , Hollywood,
Florida, November 1996.
Where You Going, Bobby Fortner? A Drama in Two Acts. London: Plays and Musicals, 2002.
<www.playsandmusicals.co.uk>
Articles
"'So We'll Go No More A Roving'" (influence of the Countess Guiccioli on the work of Lord Byron). University of Mississippi Studies in English 9 (1968): 69-84.
"Robert Penn Warren and the 'Black Patch War.'" The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 67 (1969): 301-315.
"Kipling as Representative of the Counter-Aesthetes." The Kipling Journal 37 (1970): 6-9.
"Building a Pillar of Fame" (Robert Herrick's use of folklore). University of Mississippi Studies in English 13 (1972): 65- 83.
"Yeats, Plato, and the Editors." T. S. Eliot Newsletter 1 (1974): 4-5.
"Caliban Upon Plato." Victorian Poetry 13 (1975): 136.
"The Literal and the Metaphorical." PMLA 92 (1977): 124-125.
"Housman and the fin de siecle." The Housman Society Journal 4 (1978): 15-20.
"Reason Is Not Enough: Hamlet's Recognition." Hamlet Studies 2 (1980): 47-58.
"Prince Hal and Castiglione." Forum, Ball State University, 24 (Fall 1983): 73-79.
"A Note on Twelfth Night 2.2.12." Shakespeare Bulletin 6 (July/August 1988): 24.
"Prospero's Masque: A Many-Faceted Jewel." The Upstart
Crow 9 (1989): 112-117.
Abstract published in The
Shakespeare Newsletter 41 (Spring/Summer1991): 20.
"On Faulkner and Verbena." The Southern Literary Journal 27 (Fall 1994): 73-84.
"Montague or Capulet? Romeo and Juliet 3.1.184." The Upstart Crow 15 (1995): 136 139.
"The Duel in Hamlet as a Play-within." Hamlet Studies 20 (1998): 50-62.
"A Note on Hamlet and the Boys." Hamlet Studies 25 (2003): 247-251.
"Sion Cook." Allen County, Kentucky: Family History. Nashville: Turner Publishing Co., 2004.
"James Witt." Allen County, Kentucky: Family
History. Nashville: Turner
Publishing Co., 2004.
Short Stories
"Around the Bend." Forum, Ball State University, 17 (1976):45-52.
"Rocking Chair." San Jose Studies 6 (1980): 75-85.
"Cab Stand." Scripsit 1 (1984): 41-54.
"Venice 2." The Wooster Review 3 (Spring 1985): 48-57.
"Last Days." The Journal of Kentucky Studies 10 (September1993): 14-21.
“Mother’s Day.” SNReview (Fall 2005): www.snreview.org.
“The House.” SNReview
(Spring 2006): www.snreview.org.