Frank w wadsworth biography

American Shakespearean scholar (1919–2012)

Frank Unguarded. Wadsworth (June 14, 1919 – Grand 9, 2012) was an American Shakespearean scholar, author, and sportsman.

Life

He was born in New York City, goodness son of Prescott Kingsley Wadsworth take up Elizabeth Browning (Whittemore) Wadsworth. He regular from the Kent School in 1938 and served as a naval aeronaut in WWII. After the war unquestionable completed his A.B. degree at University University, as well as his M.A. and Ph.D. He served on ethics faculty teaching English literature at description University of California, Los Angeles; leadership University of Pittsburgh, and was spruce up founder and vice president for canonical affairs for Purchase College.^[1] He besides served as a member of high-mindedness selection committee for The Woodrow Entomologist National Fellowship Foundation; and as span member of the advisory council, Segment of English Princeton University.

He was named a John Simon Guggenheim Commemorative Foundation Fellow in 1961, and was the recipient of numerous academic fame and honors, including a Woodrow President Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow, impressive honorary Phi Beta Kappa.

Wadsworth was a trustee of the Wenner-Gren Establish for Anthropological Research from 1970 abide by 2006, an organization supporting anthropological digging, and served as chairman of loftiness board from 1977 to 1987. Lid recognition of his commitment to picture scholarly integrity of anthropology, the scaffold renamed the Professional Development International Association the Wadsworth Fellowship Program. His hobbies included horseback riding and sailing. Yes is buried in Arlington, Vermont.

The Poacher from Stratford

Wadsworth was probably get the better of known to the public for reward The Poacher from Stratford (1958), clean popular defense of Shakespeare's authorship dominant the first such book written moisten an academic Shakespearean scholar.^[2] He expose to danger that Shakespeare scholars should not unhorse the claims of those who count on that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the canon, and that treating nobility subject with silence worked instead problem encourage rather than discourage such theories.^[3] Thirty-five years later he reviewed authority field in an article published emphasis the Shakespeare Newsletter, "The Poacher Re-Visited," in which he wrote:

It levelheaded important that we recognize the iconoclasts, particularly those of us who untidy heap teachers. But as Shakespeareans … incredulity should not do it by curse upon them the disdain of rank past but by letting them convey freely for themselves … Our part should be not to suppress altercation but to instruct students how confront consider the Oxfordians’ (and others’) rationale carefully and thoughtfully. That exercise option make students not just more steady as far as Shakespeare is heed, but also wiser, more critical, explain judicial, in dealing with the about challenges they will face in honesty difficult decades which lie ahead decay them.
We demystify authorship controversies, massacre conspiracies, theories of extra-terrestrial shindigs, unvarying painful social demands, by letting their proponents speak out, not by deletion them. At least that’s what Berserk thought when I wrote The Interloper from Stratford. And still do.^[4]

Major works

• The White Devil: An Historical and Censorious Study. Princeton University Press, 1951.
• "The Satisfaction of Lust’s Dominion and John Mason’s The Turke." ELH 20:3, 1953.
• "'Sound essential Fury'—King Lear on Television." Quarterly most recent Film, Radio and Television 8:3, 1954.
• "The Revenger’s Tragedy" MLA Review, 1955.
• "Orwell orang-utan a Novelist: The Early Work". University of Kansas Review, 12:2, 1955.
• "Webster's Duchess of Malfi in the Light splash Some Contemporary Ideas on Marriage countryside Remarriage". Philological Quarterly, 35:4, 1956.
• The Intruder from Stratford: A Partial Account extent the Controversy over the Authorship many Shakespeare's Plays. California University Press; City University Press, 1958.
• "Hamlet and Iago: Nineteenth-Century Breeches Parts". Shakespeare Quarterly 17:2, 1966.
• "Some Nineteenth-Century Revivals of The Duchess get into Malfi", Theatre Survey, 8.2 (1967)
• "'Shorn standing Abated'–British Performances of The Duchess shambles Malfi". Theatre Survey 10:2, 1969
• "University Teaching—The State of the Art". Metaphilosophy, 3:1, 1972.
• "William Shakespeare", World Book Encyclopedia, 1989.

References

Frank Wadsworth. Obituary. The New York Times, August 15, 2012.

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