Hardin Craig

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Hardin Craig in US Army uniform, photograph from the end of the First World War

Hardin Craig (born June 29, 1875 in Owensboro , Kentucky ; died October 13, 1968 in Houston ) was an American literary scholar.

Craig was an eminent Renaissance scholar, Shakespeare scholar, and professor of English. During his more than 65 years of academic activity, he taught at eight different universities and published more than twenty books. He was one of the few Americans to be elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature .

Life

Craig was born in Owensboro , Kentucky to Robert and Mary Jane Craig, nee McHenry. He graduated from Center College in Danville, Kentucky, with an AB in 1897 . In 1898 he began graduate studies with Thomas Marc Parrott at Princeton University , where he received his doctorate in 1901. He then studied for two years at Exeter College , Oxford and returned to Princeton as a lecturer from 1905 to 1910. He then taught at the University of Minnesota for nine years , interrupted by two years of military service. During the First World War, Craig served as a "Second Lieutenant" in the US Army. After the war he was appointed to the University of Iowa . There he founded the magazine Philological Quarterly in 1922 . In 1928 he was called to Stanford and taught there until his retirement in 1942. He then took on a guest professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for seven years , then taught from 1949 to 1960 as a lecturer at the University of Missouri in Columbia . He then taught from 1960 to 1976 as a visiting scholar at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and at Center College, where he celebrated his 65th anniversary with the service.

Craig served on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association of America . He is considered an authority on Shakespeare and Milton . He was honored with two festschrifts: the first with the title Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hardin Craig on the occasion of his retirement from Stanford University. The writing Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama in Honor of Hardin Craig was dedicated to him when he left the University of Missouri.

Craig died in Houston in 1968 at the age of 93.

Works

  • Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays (1902)
  • The Tragedy of Richard the Second (1912), editor
  • A History of English Literature II: Literature of the English Renaissance (1962)
  • Shakespeare: Historical and Critical Study With Annotated Texts of Twenty-One Plays (1931)
  • Great English Prose Writers (1932)
  • Essays in Dramatic Literature: The Parrott Presentation Volume (1935), editor
  • Edgar Allan Poe: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1935), begun by Margaret Alterton and completed by Hardin Craig
  • The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature (1936)
  • Literature Study and the Scholarly Profession (1944)
  • An Interpretation of Shakespeare (1948)
  • Freedom and Renaissance (1949)
  • A History of English Literature (1950)
  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare (1951)
  • The Written Word, and Other Essays: Lectures Delivered before the Center College of Kentucky (1953)
  • English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages (1955)
  • Woodrow Wilson at Princeton (1960).
  • New Lamps for Old: A Sequel to The Enchanted Glass (1960)
  • A New Look at Shakespeare's Quartos (1961)

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personal data
SURNAME Craig, Hardin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Owensboro , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1968
Place of death Houston