# Peter Berek

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**Peter Berek** is a Professor of English and [Shakespearean](/source/Shakespeare) scholar at [Amherst College](/source/Amherst_College). He also served as the dean of faculty and provost of [Mount Holyoke College](/source/Mount_Holyoke_College) from 1990 to 1998. He was the interim president of [Mount Holyoke College](/source/Mount_Holyoke_College) in Fall 1995.[1]

## Background

Berek was born in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)). He received a B.A. from [Amherst College](/source/Amherst_College) in 1961, M.A. from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1963, and Ph.D. from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1967. He resided in the English department at [Williams College](/source/Williams_College) from 1967 to 1990. He joined the English department at Mount Holyoke in 1990.

## Publications

- "Cross-Dressing, Gender, and Absolutism in the Beaumont and Fletcher Plays." *SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900,* vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 359–77, Spring 2004.
- "The Jew as Renaissance Man." *[Renaissance Quarterly](/source/Renaissance_Quarterly),* vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 128–62, Spring 1998.
- "Text, Gender, and Genre in The Taming of the Shrew." In Charney, Maurice (ed.). 1988. *Bad" Shakespeare: Revaluations of the Shakespeare Canon.* (pp. 91–104). Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson.
- "Locrine and Selimus." In Bowers, Fredson (ed. and foreword). 1987. *Elizabethan Dramatists.* (pp. 369–72). Detroit, MI: Gale.
- "The 'Upstart Crow,' Aesop's Crow, and Shakespeare as a Reviser." *[Shakespeare Quarterly](/source/Shakespeare_Quarterly),* vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 205–07, Summer 1984.
- "Artifice and Realism in Lyly, Nashe, and Love's Labor's Lost." *SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900,* vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 207–21, Spring 1983.
- "Tamburlaine's Weak Sons: Imitation as Interpretation before 1593." *Renaissance Drama,* vol. 13, pp. 55–82, 1982.
- "Doing and Undoing: The Value of Action in Antony and Cleopatra." *Shakespeare Quarterly,* vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 295–304, Fall 1981.
- "Locrine Revised, Selimus, and Early Responses to Tamburlaine." *Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama,* vol. 23, pp. 33–54, 1980.
- "Interpretation, Allegory, and Allegoresis." *[College English](/source/College_English),* vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 117–32, Fall 1978.
- " 'As We Are Mock'd with Art': From Scorn to Transfiguration." *SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900,* vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 289–305, Spring 1978.
- "The Voices of Marvell's Lyrics." *Modern Language Quarterly,* vol. 32, pp. 143–57, 1971.

## Awards

- The *Monroe Kirk Spears Award* for the best essay of the year published in the journal *Studies in English Literature*, 1500–1900 (for "Cross-Dressing, Gender, and Absolutism in the Beaumont and Fletcher Plays")[2]

## References

1. ["Peter Berek Says It's His Last Year as Dean of Faculty and Provost"](https://archive.today/20120805082912/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/970718/berek.html). *College Street Journal*. [Mount Holyoke College](/source/Mount_Holyoke_College). Archived from [the original](http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/970718/berek.html) on 5 August 2012.

1. ["Peter Berek"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080706182438/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/engl/profiles/berek.shtml). *www.mtholyoke.edu*. Archived from [the original](http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/engl/profiles/berek.shtml) on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

## External links

- [Official site](https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/peter-berek)

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