Alfred Harbage
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> Alfred Bennett Harbage was born in Philadelphia and received his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He lectured on Shakespeare both there and at Columbia before becoming a professor at Harvard University, where he taught for many years. He was the General Editor of the Pelican Books edition of the works of Shakespeare. >He wrote a number of well-received books on Shakespeare's works. Though best known for his work on Shakespeare, he did important work on a range of seventeenth-century figures. He also wrote crime fiction under the pen name Thomas Kyd (a reference to the 16th-century English playwright Thomas Kyd), publishing several stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, as well as four novels. >>[From
Books
Annals of English drama, 975-1700
"This book provides a chornological listing ... of plays, masks, and similar forms of entertainment, devised in England (or by Englishmen abroad) from the time of the earliest Quem Quaeritis trope in the tenth century until the death of Dryden in 1700. Coverage is broad enough to include plays in Latin or French, lost works, closet dramas, translations and adaptations, and descriptions of royal receptions and civic entertainments ... Additional information is provided regarding playwrights, theatres and companies, as well as the location of all extant dramatic manuscripts"--Cover.
Cavalier drama; an historical and criticial supplement to the study of the Elizabethan and Restoration stage
Shakespeare's audience
"Drawing largely from the writings of the time, the author gives us a glimpse into the 'minds and hearts' of Shakepeare's audience and evaluates its capacity for aesthetic and intellectual judgment"--Back cover.
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Shakespeare: The Tragedies
Contemporary critical opinion and commentary on the tragedies of Shakespeare.