Alfred Harbage

Alfred Bennett Harbage ( born July 18, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † May 2, 1976 ) was an American Anglist and Shakespeare scholar.

Life

After graduating from school in his hometown, Harbage began there ( University of Pennsylvania ) also to study. Early on, he specialized in William Shakespeare and his time and could on this subject in 1929 to complete his studies successfully with a PhD.

Subsequently Harbage remained until 1947 as a lecturer at this university. Then moved to Columbia University in New York, where he could make himself as editor of an edition of works Shakespeare a name. Between 1952 and 1970 he taught at Harvard University (Cambridge).

Shortly before his 75th birthday Alfred Harbade died in Philadelphia and found his final resting place.

Reception

Harbage works on Shakespeare were in their time highly praised and not yet completely forgotten today. In addition to these literary works authored Harbage some detective novels, which he published under the pseudonym of Thomas Kyd. This pseudonym he chose to honor the writer Thomas Kyd from the 16th century. In one of these novels, " Cover his face" he thematized unknown because vanished, work of the writer Samuel Johnson.

Quote

" Harbage treats pomposity with sarcasm, irony, hypocrisy with, and failure with gentleless. "

Works (selection)

  • Blood is a beggar. , 1946.
  • Blood of vintage. In 1947.
  • Blood on thew bosom devine. In 1948.
  • Cover his face. In 1949.
  • Annals of English Drama. 975-1700; an analytical record of all plays, extant or lost, Chronologically Arranged. Routledge, London, 1989, ISBN 0-415-01099-3 (along with Samuel Schoenbaum and Sylvia Wagon home ).
  • As they liked it. A study of Shakespeare's moral artistry. University Press, Philadelphia, Penn. In 1972.
  • Cavalier Drama. An historical and critical supplement to the study of the Elizabethan and Restoration Stage. Russell & Russell, New York 1964.
  • Shakespeare and the rival traditions. University Press, Bloomington, Ind., 1970, ISBN 0-253-20129-2.
  • Shakespeare's audience. University Press, New York 1969.
  • Sir William Davenant. Poet, Venturer, 1606-1668. Octagon Books, New York 1971, ISBN 0-374-93659-5.
  • Thomas Killigrew, Cavalier dramatist. From 1612 to 1683. Blom Press, New York 1967.
  • William Shakespeare. A reader's guide. Octagon Books, New York 1974.
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