Curated category
Shakespearean scholars
- Gary Taylor (scholar)Gary Taylor was born in 1953, the first member of his family to ever graduate from high school. That detail alone reframes everything that followed.
- A. C. BradleyA. C. Bradley was once so dominant in the study of Shakespeare that a satirical poem imagined the playwright himself failing a civil service examination…
- Alfred W. PollardAlfred William Pollard entered the world on the 14th of August 1859 at 1 Brompton Square in Kensington, London. He was the youngest son of physician Edward…
- Emma Smith (scholar)Emma Josephine Smith arrived in the world on the 15th of May 1970. Her childhood unfolded within the industrial streets of Leeds, far from the hallowed halls…
- George SteevensGeorge Steevens entered the world at Poplar on the 10th of May 1736. His father served as a captain and later became a director of the East India Company.
- Stephen GreenblattStephen Greenblatt once recalled the moment he realized the term "New Historicism" had taken on a life of its own. When he heard that American universities…
- Harold BloomHarold Bloom was, by the time he died in 2019, probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world. He grew up at 1410 Grand Concourse in…
- James S. ShapiroJames S. Shapiro was born in 1955 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Midwood High School before earning his bachelor's degree from Columbia…
- A. L. RowseA. L. Rowse was born on the 4th of December 1903 in Tregonissey, a village near St Austell in Cornwall, the son of a china clay worker.
- Edmond MaloneEdmond Malone entered the world on the 4th of October 1741 within a Dublin household of legal prominence. His father Edmond Sr.
- Edward DowdenEdward Dowden entered the world on the 3rd of May 1843 in Cork. He was the son of John Wheeler Dowden, a merchant and landowner.
- Frank KermodeFrank Kermode was born on the 29th of November 1919 on the Isle of Man, the only son of a delivery truck driver and a former waitress, in a family he later…
- G. Wilson KnightG. Wilson Knight spent decades arguing that Shakespeare's plays contained a hidden architecture of myth and symbol that most readers had never noticed.