E. A. J. Honigmann

Ernst Anselm Joachim Honigmann (November 29, 1927 - July 18, 2011 ) was an English Shakespearean scholar and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Life and work

Honigmann 's (now Wrocław) was born in Breslau. His parents emigrated in 1935 from Nazi Germany to England. His father was zoologist Dr. Hans D. S. Honigmann. Honigmann attended Hillhead High School in Glasgow. He earned a degree in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and a "Bachelor of Literature " on the chronology of Shakespeare's plays at Merton College, Oxford, with James Coutts Maxwell ( 1916-1976 ). Honigmann was with John Russell Brown and Reginald A. Foakes one of the first three Fellows at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in Stratford- upon- Avon. After his time in Stratford from 1951-1954, he returned as a lecturer in English literature to Glasgow, where he taught alongside his former teacher Peter Alexander. In 1970 he was appointed as Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University, where he taught until his retirement in 1989. In the year of his retirement, he was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy. Honigmann has authored numerous books, edited works of Shakespeare and Milton, and was the editor of the series Revels Plays & Revels Plays Companion Library in the between 1976 and 2000. He also worked yet retired to publications such as the Arden edition of Othello and wrote his memoirs togetherness: episodes from the life of a refugee.

Works (selection)

  • The Stability of Shakespeare's Text ( Edward Arnold, 1965)
  • Shakespearian Tragedy and the Mixed Response Inaugural lecture ( University of Newcastle, 1971)
  • Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies - The Dramatist 's Manipulation of Response ( Macmillan, 1976; Palgrave 2002)
  • Shakespeare's Mingled Yarn and " Measure for Measure " ( OUP, 1981)
  • Shakespeare 's Impact on his Contemporaries ( Macmillan, 1982)
  • Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Essays in comparison ( Ed. ) ( Revels Plays Companion Library, 1986)
  • John Weever: a biography of a literary associate of Shakespeare and Jonson, together with a photographic facsimile of Weever 's ' Epigrammes ' (Manchester University Press, 1987)
  • Myriad -minded Shakespeare: Essays chiefly on the Tragedies and Comedies problem ( Macmillan, 1989)
  • Playhouse Wills, 1558-1642 with Susan Brock ( Revels Plays Companion Library, 1993)
  • British Academy Shakespeare Lectures, 1980-89 ( Ed. ) ( British Academy, OUP, 1993)
  • The text of Othello and Shakespearian Revision ( Routledge, 1996)

Publishing activities

  • King John ( Arden Shakespeare, 1954)
  • Milton's Sonnets ( Macmillan, 1966)
  • King Richard the Third ( New Penguin Shakespeare, 1968)
  • Twelfth Night, or What You Will ( The Macmillan Shakespeare, 1971)
  • Othello ( Arden Shakespeare, 1997, 3rd edn 2001)

Other

  • Togetherness: episodes from the life of a refugee by EAJ Honigmann
  • Catholic Shakespeare? A Response to Hildegard Hammerschmidt - Hummel by EAJ Honigmann
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