George 'Dadie' Rylands: Shakespearean Scholar and Cambridge Legend

ISBN-13: 9781789976939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 490 str.

Peter Raina

Opis

Peter Raina's study, with its admirable selection of "Dadie" Rylands' marvellously lucid radio talks (hitherto unpublished) and its sampling of the multitude of letters he wrote and received, brings to life this legendary figure in academic and theatrical circles of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

PREFACE - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - 1. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION - 2. THE BLOOMSBURY EFFECT - 3. A DIALOGUE ON POETRY - 4. POETRY IS NOT WRITTEN WITH IDEAS; IT IS - WRITTEN WITH WORDS - 5. BBC TALKS: SYDNEY AND SHAKESPEARE - 6. BBC TALKS: POETRY AND HOW TO SPEAK IT - 7. BBC TALKS: MORE SHAKESPEARE - 8. BBC TALKS: WITH VIOLET ASQUITH AND ON - VIRGINIA WOOLF - 9. ESSAYS - 10. WITS NURTURED IN ELIZABETHAN - CAMBRIDGE - 11. SHAKESPEARE'S IMAGE OF MAN AND NATURE - 12. SHAKESPEARE'S POETIC ENERGY - 13. A MAN OF THE THEATRE: "THE STAGE HAS NO - SECRETS FOR ME" - 14. LECTURER AND TUTOR - 15. DADIE'S ROOMS AT KING'S - 16. DOMUS BURSAR - 17. LETTERS: THE VIRTUES OF FRIENDSHIP - 18. LETTERS: KEEPING UP WITH BLOOMSBURY - 19. LAST SCENE OF ALL

O autorze

Peter Raina read Modern History at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Later he worked on various aspects of British history in Oxford, as Senior Research Associate, the Graduate Centre, Balliol College; Honorary Member of High Table and Member of the Senior Common Room, Christ Church; Associate Member of Nuffield College; Honorary Member of the Senior Common Room, Magdalen College; Visiting Research Scholar, Faculty of History; Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, London, and at the Centre of International Studies, Faculty of History, Cambridge. He was granted High Table Dining Privileges at Peterhouse and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is a life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. His publications include a monumental six volume history of the House of Lords reforms, and classic biographies: The Seventh Earl Beauchamp: A Victim of His Times, and John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.