Thomas Marc Parrott

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Thomas Marc Parrott (born December 22, 1866 in Dayton , Ohio; died February 5, 1960 in Lawrenceville , New Jersey ) was an eminent American Shakespearean scholar and literary scholar .

life and work

TM Parrott was born and raised in Ohio. His father was Col. Edwin A. Parrott, a veteran of the American Civil War and chairman of the Ohio State House of Representatives.

In 1888 Parrott graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and was then a lecturer at Miami University for two years . In 1893 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the poetry of Robert Browning . In 1896 he was first appointed Assistant Professor of English and in Princeton and in 1902 a chair. He taught there for over thirty years until his retirement.

Parrott worked primarily in the Elizabethan theater . He also published studies on Samuel Johnson and Alexander Pope . His main interests were Shakespeare and his contemporary George Chapman , whose plays he published for the first time between 1910 and 1914.

Selected publications

  • The Greater Victorian Poets (1901)
  • The World's Great Woman Novelists (1901)
  • Samuel Johnson, Philosopher and Autocrat (1903)
  • The Authorship of "Sir Giles Goosecappe" (1906)
  • The Date of Chapman's “Bussy D'Ambois” (1908)
  • Hamlet on the Stage (1953)
  • Shakespearean Comedy (1949)

proof

  • Craig, Hardin , ed.Essays in Dramatic Literature: The Parrott Presentation Volume: By Pupils of Professor Thomas Marc Parrott of Princeton University, Published in his Honor. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1937.
  • Who was who in America with world notables: volume III, 1951-1960, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1963, p. 667.
  • Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977.

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personal data
SURNAME Parrott, Thomas Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1960
Place of death Lawrenceville , New Jersey