EMW Tillyard

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Eustace Maudeville Wetenhall Tillyard (* 1889 in Cambridge ; † 1962 ) was a British literary scholar, Shakespeare scholar and university teacher.

Life

Tillyard attended a school in Lausanne and then went to the Perse School in Cambridge, where he subsequently studied classical studies at Jesus College . He deepened his studies, particularly in archeology, at the British School at Athens in Athens . In 1913 he returned to Jesus College as a fellow .

During the First World War he was deployed in France and on the front in Greece . There he was most recently a liaison officer between the British units and the Greek army.

In the following years he taught English at Jesus College, whose master he also received from 1945 to the end of his life in 1959. However, his scientific interest turned to the literature of England during the Renaissance .

Since 1952 he was a member of the British Academy .

Work and action

Tillyard's best-known work is The Elizabethan World Picture , in which he provides background information on Elizabethan literature, e.g. B. also on William Shakespeare's work, and with whom he shaped the influential concept of the Elizabethan worldview . Other important works are those on John Milton .

Publications

  • 1914: The Athenian Empire and the Great Illusion .
  • 1923: The Hope vases. A catalog and a discussion of the Hope collection of Greek vases with an introduction on the history of the collection and on late Attic and south Italian vases .
  • 1923: Lamb's Criticism. A Selection from the Literary Chritisism of Charles Lamb .
  • 1939: with CS Lewis : The Personal Heresy. A controversy .
  • 1942: The Elizabethan World Picture. A Study of the Idea of ​​Order in the Age of Shakespeare .
  • 1943: The Action of Comus . Oxford.
  • 1944: Shakespeare's history plays.
  • 1946: Milton .
  • 1947: The Miltonic Setting. Past and Present .
  • 1949: Shakespeare's Problem Plays . Chatto and Windus, London.
  • 1951: Shakespeare's Last Plays . Chatto and Windus, London.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tillyard, EMW
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tillyard, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , England , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DATE OF DEATH 1962