Dr. Mitali P. Wong, Professor of English and Foreign
Languages at Claflin University has a new book to her credit.
It’s Politics and Tropes in Renaissance History Plays:
Understanding a Neglected Genre, published in 2006 by
Edwin Mellen Press, a publisher of US and UK scholarly works.

 The book, published in hardcover, discusses recurring themes – “tropes” – in English historical drama of the Renaissance period. Dr. Wong analyzes Renaissance rhetoric and Tudor political concepts in the speeches and speech acts of major historical characters in John Bale’s King Johan, Thomas Hughes’ The Misfortunes of Arthur, Thomas Lodge’s The Wounds of Civil War, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, the anonymous Troublesome Reign, Shakespeare’s King John, and the First Tetralogy.

Recognized for her teaching skills at Claflin, as well as her published works, Dr. Wong has contributed articles on Christopher Marlowe, Canadian poet Robert Kroetsch, Asian American writer Bharati Mukherjee, women in Indian films, and the Chinese feminist writer Zhang Jie. She co-authored, with Claflin professor Dr. Zia Hasan, The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean (2004), a work which is constantly being cited in scholarly research today.

With a preface by Guy Mermier, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, her new book (ISBN 978-0-7734-5687-7) is available for $109.95 (UK: £69.95) from bookstores or from http://www.mellenpress.com/.