Samuel Schoenbaum
Samuel Schoenbaum (born March 6, 1927 in New York ; died March 27, 1996 in Washington, DC ) was a distinguished Shakespearean scholar .
life and work
Schoenbaum was born in New York and taught at Northwestern University from 1953 to 1975 . The last four years of his activity there he was the “Frank Bliss Snyder Professor of English Literature”. The following year he taught at the City University of New York and from 1976 to 1993 he was Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Maryland , from 1981 to 1996 director of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at that university: he was also President of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vice President of the International Shakespeare Association and editor of Renaissance Drama magazine .
In 1946 Schoenbaum married Marilyn Turk. He died of cancer in 1996.
Publications
- Middleton's Tragedies (1955)
- Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship (1966)
- Shakespeare's Lives (1970; 2nd ed., 1991)
- Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (1974)
- William Shakespeare, Records and Images (1981)
Web links
- Stanley Wells : Obituary. The Independent , London 1996
- Wolfgang Saxon: Obituary. The New York Times
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoenbaum, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1996 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |