W. W. Greg
Sir Walter Wilson Greg, also WW Greg (* July 9, 1875, † March 4, 1959 ) was a British Shakespeare scholar.
Life
Greg was born in 1875 in Wimbledon Common. His father, William Rathbone Greg, was a writer. His mother Julia Wilson was the daughter of Scottish bankers James Wilson. This is known as the founder of Standard Chartered Bank and The Economist. Greg should even publish the magazine founded by his grandfather and studied therefore in Wixenford, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge University. At Cambridge he met Ronald Brunlees McKerrow. The friendship with him strengthened his decision to become a literary scholar. As a youth he went to a list of all Renaissance dramas that were printed before 1700 and became a member of the Bibliographical Society, which he was president from 1930 to 1932. In 1935, the Gold Medal of the Society awarded him. After his studies, he led a scientifically productive life as a private scholar and earned his keep out of his possession of the shares of The Economist.
Work
In collaboration with AH Bullen he wrote Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama (1906 ), published the diary of Philip Henslowe ( 1906-8 ) and the records of Edward Alleyn. The work on these works helped him to a deeper knowledge of the theater practice of the Renaissance, which he used for his work as editor of the Malone Society in the years 1906-1939. From 1907 to 1913 he was librarian of Trinity College. He resigned his position after his marriage to his cousin Elizabeth Gaskell. As an independent scholar Greg The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910 ), Robert Greene 's Orlando Furioso, George Peele 's The Battle of Alcazar and the drama edited Sir Thomas More (1911 ). After a long break out lative activity he edited Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in 1950.
Greg's contributions to theater practice of the Renaissance consisted primarily of the studies Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses (1931 ) and English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650 ( 1932). In his book The Variants in the First Quarto of King Lear (1940 ) he made a careful study of the first quarto of Lear Kin dar. Among his many reviews extends the critique by J. Churton Collins 's 1906 edition of the works of Robert Greene out.
From about 1940 he began to work on his extensive works The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare ( 1951), The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History ( 1955), Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing, 1550-1650 (1954 ) and the essay the rational of copy- text (1950), which had a formative influence on the development of textual criticism and basic concepts for the so-called New Bibliography presented ready. Together with Alfred W. Pollard, he made important contributions to the understanding of the tradition of the texts of Shakespeare. His most extensive work, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, was published in four volumes published between 1939 and 1959. 1954-55 he lectured on Bibliography at Oxford University.
1950 Greg was knighted for his scientific achievements.