Donald Beecher

Donald Beecher is the Chancellor's Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University in Canada, where he specializes in the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research and teaching have taken him in many directions from the history of medicine to the cognitive sciences, with salient adventures along the way into Ben Jonson studies, early English prose fiction, tricksters, folklore, early music, Italian theater, exploration and pharmacology, witchcraft, and...See more

Donald Beecher is the Chancellor's Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University in Canada, where he specializes in the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research and teaching have taken him in many directions from the history of medicine to the cognitive sciences, with salient adventures along the way into Ben Jonson studies, early English prose fiction, tricksters, folklore, early music, Italian theater, exploration and pharmacology, witchcraft, and the history of collecting. The Scruffy Scoundrels is his eighth book-collaboration with Massimo Ciavolella, including their collaboration on the English and French editions of Ferrand's "Treatise on Lovesickness." Their future projects include a new translation of tales from Boccaccio's "Decameron" for Broadview Press and of the anonymous Sienese theatrical masterpiece, The Deceived, for Italica Press. See less