![](http://ekbertfaas.net/majorworks/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/First-book-722x1024.jpeg)
Ekbert Faas’s first PhD examines the theme of appearance and reality in early Elizabethan literature which, as his doctoral supervisor, Professor Wolfgang Clemen, had demonstrated plays a major role in Shakespeare. Faas was awarded “summa cum laude,” the highest distinction, for this study.