Thomas Marc Parrott

Thomas Marc Parrott (* 1866, † 1960) was a distinguished American Shakespeare scholar and literary scholar.

Life and work

TM Parrott was born in Ohio and grew up there. His father was Col. Edwin A. Parrott, a veteran of the American Civil War and Speaker of the House of the State of Ohio.

In 1888, Parrott earned a degree from the " College of New Jersey" ( Princeton ) and was then for two years professor at Miami University. In 1893 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the poetry of Robert Browning. In 1896 he was appointed first " Assistant Professor of English" and in Princeton and in 1902 a full professorship. He taught there for over thirty years until his retirement.

Parrott worked principally for the Elizabethan theater. He also published studies on Samuel Johnson and Alexander Pope. But his main interest was Shakespeare and his contemporaries George Chapman, whose plays he published for the first time in the period 1910-1914.

Selected Publications

• The Greater Victorian Poets (1901 )
• The World 's Great Woman Novelists (1901 )
• Samuel Johnson, Philosopher and Autocrat (1903 )
• The Authorship of " Sir Giles Goosecappe " (1906 )
• The Date of Chapman's " Bussy D' Ambois " (1908 )
• Hamlet on the Stage (1953 )
• " Shakespearean Comedy" (1949 )

Evidence

• Craig, Hardin, ed Essays in Dramatic Literature: The Parrott Presentation Volume: By Pupils of Professor Thomas Marc Parrott of Princeton University, Published in Honor his Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1937.
• Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977.