Andrew Gurr

Andrew John Gurr (born December 23, 1936 ) is a British Shakespearean scholar .

life and work

Gurr was born in Leicester and raised in New Zealand . He studied at the University of Auckland and Cambridge University . He taught at the Universities of Wellington , Leeds and Nairobi from 1969 to 1973. Before his retirement he was a professor at the University of Reading . In the early 1980s, Gurr wrote a study with Claire Hanson on Katherine Mansfield and two works on African literature. He then turned to the work of Shakespeare, the study of Renaissance drama and Elizabethan theatrical practice. Gurr edited individual Shakespeare plays (Henry V, Richard II) and edited works by John Fletcher . The new building of the Globe Theater was scientifically directed by him. He also advised on the reconstruction of the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia . From 1988 to 1998 he was the editor of Modern Language Review .

Publications

• Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594--1625 (2009) Cambridge University Press
• The Shakespeare Company (2004) Cambridge University Press
• The First Quarto of Henry V by William Shakespeare, editor, (2000) Cambridge University Press
• Staging in Shakespeare's Theaters, with Mariko Ichikawa (2000) Oxford University Press
• William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time (1996) HarperCollins
• The Shakespearean Playing Companies (1996) Clarendon
• The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 (1992) Cambridge University Press
• King Henry V by William Shakespeare, editor, (1992) Cambridge University Press
• Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe, with John Orrell (1989) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Studying Shakespeare: an Introduction (1988) Arnold
• Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (1987) Cambridge University Press
• King Richard II by William Shakespeare, editor, (1984) Cambridge University Press
• Writers in Exile: the Identity of Home in Modern Literature (1981) Harvester Press
• Katherine Mansfield , with Claire Hanson (1981) Macmillan
• Hamlet and the Distracted Globe (1978) Scottish Academic Press (for Sussex University Press)
• Black Aesthetics , editor with Pio Zimiru, (1974) East African Literature Bureau
• Writers in East Africa, with Angus Calder (1973) East African Literature Bureau
• The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, editor, (1969) University of California Press
• Philaster by Beaumont and Fletcher, editor, (1969) Methuen
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, editor, (1968) University of California Press

proof

• Magill, Frank Northen, et al., Eds. Cyclopedia of World Authors. Pasadena, CA, Salem Press, 1997.

Web links

• Andrew Gurr : Shakespeare's First Poem: Sonnet 145 . In: Willy Shakes . Irvin Leigh Matus , accessed July 12, 2018 .