\"Shakespeare Scholar\" John Dover Wilson Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

Up for sale "Shakespeare Scholar" John Dover Wilson Signed 3X5 Card.  This item is authenticated By Todd

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John Dover Wilson CH (13 July 1881 – 15

January 1969) was a professor and scholar of Renaissance drama, focusing particularly

on the work of William Shakespeare. Born in Greater London), he attended Lancing

College, Sussex, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and

taught at King's College London before

becoming Regius Professor of English literature at the University of Edinburgh. Wilson was

primarily known for two lifelong projects. He was the chief editor, with the

assistance of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, of the New

Shakespeare, a series of editions of the complete plays published

by Cambridge University Press. Of those

editions, the one of Hamlet was his particular focus, and he published a number of

other books on the play, supporting the textual scholarship of his edition as

well as offering an interpretation. His What Happens in Hamlet, first

published in 1935, is among the more influential books ever written on the

play, being reprinted several times including a revised second edition in 1959.Wilson's

textual work was characterized by considerable boldness and confidence in his

own judgement.

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