Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
professor, Cornell University alumni, Shakespeareacademia, from New York City, Berg Professor, Literary critic
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a...

Edmond Malone

male, deceased (1812)
Shakespeareacademia, elizabethan, edmund, Irish, editor, Literary critic…shakespeare
Edmond Malone (October 4, 1741 - April 25, 1812), was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare. His first name...
Horace Howard Furness

Horace Howard Furness

male, deceased (1912)
Shakespeareacademia, variorum, shakespeare, literary criticism
Horace Howard Furness (1833 - 1912) was a significant U.S. Shakespearean scholar. His "New Variorum" editions of Shakespeare's plays combined for...

Stephen Booth

male
Shakespeareacademia, On the Value of Hamlet, Literary critic, shakespeare, sonnets, An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets
Stephen Booth is a professor of English literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He first attracted attention with his controversial...
Marco Mincoff

Marco Mincoff

male, deceased (1987)
Shakespeareacademia, University of Sofia, shakespeare, stylistics, University of Berlin, English Renaissance…Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Survey
Marco Mincoff (1909-1987) Shakespearean scholar and professor of English Studies at the University of Sofia. Mincoff was born July 15 (28), 1909 in...
George Steevens

George Steevens

male, deceased (1800)
Shakespeareacademia, King's College, Cambridge, shakespeare, elizabethan, hogarth, English…Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare
George Steevens (May 10, 1736 - January 22, 1800), was an English Shakespearean commentator. He was born at Poplar, the son of a captain and later...
Israel Gollancz

Israel Gollancz

male, deceased (1930)
Shakespeareacademia, Old Citizen, English, shakespeare, Jewish person, Sir Israel Gollancz
Sir Israel Gollancz (1864 - 1930) was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was the younger brother of Sir Hermann Gollancz....
Samuel Schoenbaum

Samuel Schoenbaum

male, deceased (1996)
University of Maryland, Northwestern University, City University of New York, multiple sclerosis, University of Maryland, College Park, Shakespeareacademia…William Shakespeare, Records and Images, Shakespeare A Documentary Life
Samuel Schoenbaum (6 March 1927 - 27 March 1996) was a leading 20th century Shakespearean biographer and scholar. Born in New York, Schoenbaum...

Joseph Quincy Adams

male, deceased (1946)
Shakespeareacademia, folger shakespeare library, Cornell University faculty, wake forest college, shakespeare, Cornell University
Joeph Quincy Adams was a prominent Shakespeare scholar and the first director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Adams, a scion...
J Leslie Hotson

J Leslie Hotson

male
Yale University alumni, Henry Porter, Leslie Hotson, John Leslie Hotson, Nunne's Priest's Tale, Shakespeareacademia…shakespeare
John Leslie Hotson known as J Leslie Hotson or Leslie Hotson (1897 - 16th November 1992) Prolific Shakespearean scholar and sleuth, born at Delhi,...