Andrew Gurr

Andrew John Gurr ( born December 23, 1936) is a British Shakespeare scholar.

Life and work

Gurr was born in Leicester and grew up in New Zealand. He studied at the University of Auckland and at Cambridge University. At the universities of Wellington, Leeds and Nairobi, he has taught in the period 1969-1973. Prior to his retirement, he was a professor at the University of Reading. In the early 80s Gurr co-authored with Claire Hanson a study of Katherine Mansfield and two works of African literature. He then turned to the works of Shakespeare, the study of Renaissance drama and the Elizabethan theater practice. Gurr were individual pieces out Shakespeare (Henry V, Richard II) and edited works of John Fletcher. The construction of the Globe Theatre was conducted scientifically by him. He was also a consultant for the reconstruction of the " Blackfriars Playhouse" in Staunton ( Virginia). In the period from 1988 to 1998 he was the editor of the journal Modern Language Review.

Publications

• Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral 's Company 1594 - 1625 (2009) Cambridge University Press
• The Shakespeare Company ( 2004) Cambridge University Press
• The First Quarto of Henry V by William Shakespeare, editor, (2000) Cambridge University Press
• Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres, with Mariko Ichikawa (2000 ) Oxford University Press
• William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time (1996 ) HarperCollins
• The Shakespearean Playing Companies ( 1996) Clarendon
• The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 (1992 ) Cambridge University Press
• King Henry V by William Shakespeare, editor, (1992 ) Cambridge University Press
• Rebuilding Shakespeare 's Globe, with John Orrell (1989 ) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Studying Shakespeare: an Introduction (1988 ) Arnold
• Play Going in Shakespeare 's London (1987 ) Cambridge University Press
• King Richard II by William Shakespeare, editor, (1984 ) Cambridge University Press
• Writers in Exile: the Identity of Home in Modern Literature ( 1981) Harvester Press
• Katherine Mansfield, with Claire Hanson (1981 ) Macmillan
• Hamlet and the Distracted Globe (1978 ) Scottish Academic Press ( for Sussex University Press)
• Black Aesthetics, editor with Pio Zimiru, (1974 ) East African Literature Bureau
• Writers in East Africa, with Angus Calder (1973 ) East African Literature Bureau
• The Maid 's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, editor, (1969 ) University of California Press
• Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher, editor, (1969 ) Methuen
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, editor, (1968 ) University of California Press

Evidence

• Magill, Frank Northen, et al., Eds. Cyclopedia of World Authors. Pasadena, CA, Salem Press, 1997.