Reginald A. Foakes
Reginald A. Foakes (born October 18, 1923 in West Bromwich ; died December 22, 2013 ) was a British English scholar and Shakespeare researcher.
Life
Foakes grew up in West Bromwich. He attended Black Lane Elementary School and the local grammar school there . He began his studies at the University of Birmingham in 1941, but had to interrupt it because of the war. During the Second World War he was stationed as a radar technician in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy in India.
After the war, he completed his studies with a doctorate from Allardyce Nicoll . Together with John Russell Brown and Ernst Honigmann , he was one of the first three fellows at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon from 1951 . He later taught at the Universities of Durham , Yale , Toronto and the University of California, Santa Barbara . He founded the Institute for English Language at the University of Kent , where he later became dean. There he headed the establishment of the departments for art history and theater and film studies. For the construction of the Gulbenkian Theater at the University of Kent, he successfully raised significant donations.
Works
Foakes has been particularly concerned with Cyril Tourneur , Shakespeare and the English Renaissance drama. Of all of Shakespeare's works, he paid particular attention to King Lear . He got editions of Troilus and Cressida , Henry VIII and The Comedy of Errors . Henslowe's diary, edited by him, is now indispensable for the study of theater practice in Elizabethan times. With his well-known work on Hamlet and Lear, he devoted himself to questions of the history of reception. He researched Coleridge and the so-called image complexes in the works of Elizabethan theater.
Honors
The University of Birmingham awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2001 for the 50th anniversary of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. He received the award together with the actors Kenneth Branagh and Harriet Walter and the scientists EAJ Honigmann and John Russell Brown (University of Michigan).
Reg Foakes was married twice and has four children from his first marriage. He died in Stratford-upon-Avon over Christmas 2013.
Selected Works
- Henslowe's Diary. (with RT Rickert) Cambridge University Press 1961.
- Illustrations of the English Stage: 1580-1642. Stanford UP 1985. ISBN 978-0804712361 .
- Hamlet Versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art. Cambridge University Press 1993. ISBN 978-0521342926 .
- Shakespeare and Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0521527439 .
- King Lear. The Arden Shakespeare. Third Series. Edited by RA Foakes. 1997. ISBN 978-1-903-43659-2 .
Secondary literature
- Imagined Places: A life in the twentieth century (Xlibris, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4134-9914-8 ), Foakes' autobiography.
- Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of RA Foakes ( Grace Ioppolo , ed., University of Delaware Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-87413-732-3 ).
Web links
- In memory of Reg Foakes January 2, 2014
- University of Birmingham January 6th 2014
- Honoring Professor Reg Foakes January 10, 2014
- Henslowe-Alleyn Digitization Project
- World-Cat Identity for Reginald A. Foakes
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthew Reisz: Reginald Foakes, 1923-2013 Obituary on timeshighereducation.co.uk January 24, 2014 (accessed January 5, 2015).
- ↑ a b Obituary in The Guardian
- ↑ Glittering prizes .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foakes, Reginald A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Bromwich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 2013 |