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 was born on the 15th of May 1970 in Leeds, and grew up in a city with no particular expectation that she would end up at one of the…
- George SteevensGeorge Steevens walked from Hampstead to London every morning before seven o'clock. Every day, he made his rounds of the booksellers' shops, talked…
- 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 is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period.
- 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 was born on the 4th of October 1741 in Dublin, and by the time he died on the 25th of May 1812, he had done something that no scholar before…
- Edward DowdenEdward Dowden was born in Cork on the 3rd of May 1843, the second son of a merchant and landowner named John Wheeler Dowden.
- 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.