Charles R. Lyons

Charles R. Lyons (born March 27, 1933 in Glendale , California ; † May 11, 1999 in Palo Alto , California) was Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and owner of the Lyons Ltd Gallery . He received his BA (1955), MA (1956) and Ph.D. (1964) from Stanford. During his undergraduate studies, he was inspired by Shakespeare's dramas through the well-known and popular professor Margery Bailey, after whom his chair was later named.

As a theater scholar, Lyons is best known for his work on the theory and aesthetics of theater. He had worked as an actor in Los Angeles in the 1950s, including at the Pasadena Playhouse. After completing his master's and before his doctoral studies, he served in the United States Navy , with assignments in the Far East and finally in Washington DC as an assistant to Jacques Cousteau .

In the early 1960s Lyons taught theater studies at Principia College in Illinois . In 1968 he was offered a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley , where he later received the chair of theater studies and later was promoted to "Associate Dean of Letters and Sciences". In 1973 he returned to Stanford, where he took the chair in theater studies and designed a new curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students. His aim was to confront the doctoral student with the theory and practice of theater in order to train highly qualified specialists for both areas. Many of his students took up chairs at American universities and in the country's theaters. Others work in films today.

In his research Lyons devoted himself to Shakespeare , Chekhov , Ibsen , Brecht , Beckett and Shepard . He published at least one monograph and several journal articles about each of these. Lyons has also directed, such as Gays The Beggar's Opera , Samuel Beckett's Endgame , William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen from Verona and Hamlet .

Awards

• Fullbright scholar
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
• MacArthur Fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• Bertolt Brecht: The Despair and the Polemic , Southern Illinois University Press, 1968
• Shakespeare and the Ambiguity of Love's Triumph , Mouton, 1971
• Samuel Beckett , Macmillan, 1983 ISBN 978-0-333-29465-9
• Henrik Ibsen: The Divided Consciousness , Southern Illinois University Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0-8093-0550-6
• Critical Essays on Henrik Ibsen , GK Hall, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8161-8835-2
• Hedda Gabler: Gender, Role, and World , Twayne Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-0-8057-9417-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNFORGETTABLE TEACHERS: MARGERY BAILEY . In: Stanford Magazine , March 2003. Archived from the original on June 16, 2012 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 22, 2011.  
2. ^ Stanford Fill Professorships . In: San Jose Mercury News , December 12, 1985. Retrieved June 22, 2011. 
3. ^ Memorial Resolution: Charles R. Lyons . In: Stanford Report , November 17, 1999. Retrieved June 22, 2011. 
4. ↑ Carol Blitzer: Affordable charm . In: Palo Alto Weekly , March 28, 2003. Retrieved June 22, 2011. 
5. ^ Memorial Resolution: Charles R. Lyons . In: The Stanford Report , November 17, 1999. Retrieved June 22, 2011. 
6. ^ Charles Lyons: Addressing the American Theater . In: American Literary History . 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 159-171.
7. ^ Setting the stage for change . In: Stanford Magazine , July 1999. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 22, 2011.  
8. ^ John Boudreau: Curtains for Stanford's Drama Dept.? : Stage: Beset by budget woes, the university's acclaimed drama program faces severe cuts. . In: Los Angeles Times , December 26, 1991. Retrieved June 22, 2011. 
9. ^ Charles Lyons: Addressing the American Theater . In: American Literary History . 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 159-171.