EAJ Honigmann

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Ernst Honigmann

Ernst Anselm Joachim Honigmann ( November 29, 1927 - July 18, 2011 ) was an English Shakespeare scholar and Fellow of the British Academy .

life and work

Honigmann was born in Breslau . His parents emigrated to England from Nazi Germany in 1935 . His father was the zoologist Hans DS Honigmann . Honigmann attended Hillhead High School in Glasgow . He earned a degree in English literary studies from the University of Glasgow and a Bachelor of Literature on the chronology of Shakespeare's dramas from Merton College , Oxford with James Coutts Maxwell (1916–1976). Together with John Russell Brown and Reginald A. Foakes, Honigmann was one of the first three fellows at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham inStratford upon Avon . After his time in Stratford from 1951 to 1954 he returned to Glasgow as a lecturer in English literature, where he taught alongside his former teacher Peter Alexander. In 1970 he was appointed Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University , where he taught until his retirement in 1989. In the year of his retirement he was made a Fellow of the British Academy . Honigmann wrote numerous books, edited works by Shakespeare and Milton and was the editor of the Revels Plays & Revels Plays Companion Library series from 1976 to 2000. He also worked in retirement on publications such as the Arden Edition of Othello and wrote his memoirs in Togetherness : episodes from the life of a refugee .

Works (selection)

Books

  • The Stability of Shakespeare's Text (Edward Arnold, 1965)
  • Shakespearian Tragedy and the Mixed Response Inaugural lecture (University of Newcastle, 1971)
  • Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies - The Dramatist's Manipulation of Response (Macmillan, 1976; Palgrave 2002)
  • Shakespeare's Mingled Yarn and "Measure for Measure" (OUP, 1981)
  • Shakespeare's Impact on his Contemporaries (Macmillan, 1982)
  • Shakespeare: The Lost Years (Manchester University Press, 1985)
  • Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Essays in comparison (Ed.) (Revels Plays Companion Library, 1986)
  • John Weever: a biography of a literary associate of Shakespeare and Jonson, together with a photographic facsimile of Weever's 'Epigrammes' (Manchester University Press, 1987)
  • Myriad-minded Shakespeare: Essays chiefly on the Tragedies and Problem Comedies (Macmillan, 1989)
  • Playhouse Wills, 1558-1642 with Susan Brock (Revels Plays Companion Library, 1993)
  • British Academy Shakespeare Lectures, 1980-89 (Ed.) (British Academy, OUP, 1993)
  • The Texts of Othello and Shakespearian Revision (Routledge, 1996)

Editorial activity

  • King John (Arden Shakespeare, 1954)
  • Milton's Sonnets (Macmillan, 1966)
  • King Richard the Third (New Penguin Shakespeare, 1968)
  • Twelfth Night, or What You Will (The Macmillan Shakespeare, 1971)
  • Paradise Lost, Book X with CA Patrides (The Macmillan Milton, 1972)
  • Othello (Arden Shakespeare, 1997, 3rd edn 2001)

Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary of Newcastle University ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ncl.ac.uk
  2. ^ Preface Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honor of EAJ Honigmann Edited by John Batchelor, Tom Cain and Claire Lamont (Macmillan 1997)
  3. ↑ Directory of Fellows of the British Academy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britac.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Honigmann, EAJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honigmann, Ernst Anselm Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1927
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2011