Charles R. Lyons

Charles R. Lyons ( born March 27, 1933, Glendale, California, † 11 May 1999 Palo Alto, California ) was a Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and owner of Gallery Lyons Ltd.. He received his B. A. (1955), M.A. (1956) and Ph.D. (1964 ) from Stanford. During his undergraduate studies he be inspired by the famous and popular Stanford professor Margery Bailey, after his department was later named for Shakespeare's plays.

Lyons is known as a theater scholar, especially for his work on the theory and aesthetics of the theater. He had worked in the 1950s as an actor in Los Angeles, among other things, at the Pasadena Playhouse. After his master's degree and before receiving his doctorate, he served in the U.S. Navy, with operations in the Far East and eventually in Washington DC as an assistant to Jacques Cousteau.

In the early 1960s lectured Lyons Theatre Studies at Principia College in Illinois. In 1968 he received an appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, where he later received the Department of Theatre Studies, and later became the " Associate Dean of Letters and Sciences". In 1973 he returned to Stanford, where he took over the Chair of Theatre Studies and designed a new curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students. His goal was to confront the PhD with the theory and practice of the theater to train highly qualified specialists for both areas. Many of his students took professorships at American universities and theaters in the country. Others work today in the film.

In his research, Lyons Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, Beckett and Shepard devoted. About this, he published at least a monograph and several journal articles. Lyons also repeatedly led Director, such as Gay The Beggar's Opera, Samuel Beckett's Endgame, William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona and Hamlet.

Awards

Works

  • Bertolt Brecht: The Despair and the Polemic, Southern Illinois University Press, 1968
  • Shakespeare and the Ambiguity of Love 's Triumph, Mouton, 1971
  • Samuel Beckett, Macmillan, 1983 ISBN 978-0-333-29465-9
  • Henrik Ibsen: The Divided Consciousness, Southern Illinois University Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0-8093-0550-6
  • Critical Essays on Henrik Ibsen, G.K. Hall, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8161-8835-2
  • Hedda Gabler: Gender, Role, and World, Twayne Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-0-8057-9417-5
May 11 Sam Shepard Endgame (play)
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