Nevill Coghill

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Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill (born April 19, 1899 in Castletownshend , County Cork , Ireland ; † November 6, 1980 ) was an Irish- British literary scholar who was particularly famous for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (written around 1387) got known. He also worked as a screenwriter and director .

Life

Nevill Coghill was the son of Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill and Elizabeth Hildegarde Augusta Somerville and was born in "Castle Townshend". He attended Haileybury College in Hertfordshire . During the First World War , in which he was used from 1917 to 1919, he rose to the rank of lieutenant in the service of the Royal Field Artillery. In 1922 graduated Coghill at Exeter College of Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In 1925 he made his Master of Arts (MA) there and was a Fellow at Exeter College until 1967 . He was also Professor of English Literature at Merton College, also in Oxford, between 1957 and 1966 .

He translated Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (published by Coghill in 1957), which he also adapted for theatrical performances or as a musical. He initially produced these and texts by William Langland for BBC Radio , and they were later published. He was director of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and produced The Tempest by William Shakespeare in 1949 . He was also a member of the literary circle " The Inklings ", which also included JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis or Owen Barfield .

family

Coghill married Elspeth Nora Harley on March 24, 1927, daughter of Richard James Harley, from whom he was divorced in 1933. The marriage had a daughter, Rosemary Caroline Coghill (born July 25, 1928).

Filmography

script

Fonts

  • The Pardon of Piers Plowman. Oxford University Press, 1945.
  • The Masque of Hope. Oxford University Press, 1948. (Special edition for Queen Elizabeth's visit to Oxford University on May 25, 1948).
  • The Poet Chaucer. Oxford University Press, 1949.
  • Nevill Coghill, Muriel Clara Bradbrook, John William Robinson: Geoffrey Chaucer. - Writers and their work. 1956. (New edition: Longman, ISBN 978-0-582-01079-6 ).
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1957. (New edition: Penguin Classics, 2012, ISBN 978-0-14-042438-6 ).
  • Nevill Coghill (Editor): The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The Folio Society, London 1960, DNB 1001584627 , (William Shakespeare).
  • Shakespeare's Professional Skills 1964.
  • Langland: Piers Plowman. 1964.
  • Chaucer's Idea of ​​What Is Noble. 1971, ISBN 0-19-721485-1 .
  • Collected papers. 1988, ISBN 0-7108-1233-7 .

literature

  • John Lawlor, WH Auden: To Nevill Coghill from Friends. Festschrift 1966.
  • Diana Glyer: The Company They Keep: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community. 2007, ISBN 978-0-87338-890-0 .
  • Henry Karlson: Thinking with the Inklings. 2010, ISBN 1-4505-4130-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neville Coghill on ignatius.com, accessed on February 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill on thepeerage.com , accessed September 14, 2016.
  3. ^ Musical The Canterbury Tales. on mtishows.com, accessed February 5, 2013.
  4. ↑ Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Short biography on bodley.ox.ac.uk, accessed February 5, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Coghill, Nevill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-British literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Castletownshend , County Cork , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1980