Robert Pierce Emeritus Professor (1964)
	Rice 108 Spring 2008 Office Hours: MW 11:00-noon & by appointment
	Robert.Pierce@oberlin.edu
	B.A., Allegheny College, 1956 M.A., Harvard University, 1957 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1964
	Shakespeare; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature; dramatic comedy; satire. Robert Pierce most frequently teaches Shakespeare, Milton and 16th- and 17th-century literature. He has published a book on Shakespeare's history plays and articles on Shakespeare and other topics; he and his wife co-wrote a text on reading poetry. His current research interests are Shakespeare and the application of the philosophy of language to literary criticism.