Katherine Duncan-Jones (1941–2022)
Auteur van Shakespeare's Life and World
Over de Auteur
Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College, London.
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Werken van Katherine Duncan-Jones
The Arden Shakespeare Book of Quotations on The Seven Ages of Man: Arden Shakespeare (Arden Shakespeare Book of… (2001) 6 exemplaren
Sidney's Urania 1 exemplaar
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Venus and Adonis, The rape of Lucrece, and the shorter poems (1644) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 77 exemplaren
Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Poems (Oxford Paperback English Texts) (1973) — Redacteur — 28 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Duncan-Jones, Katherine Dorothea
- Geboortedatum
- 1941-05-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2022-10-16
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- dementia {complications}
- Opleiding
- Oxford University (St. Hilda's)
King Edward's School, Birmingham, England, UK - Beroepen
- Professor of English Literature
Shakespeare scholar - Relaties
- Wilson, Bee (daughter)
Wilson, Emily R. (daughter)
Wilson, A.N. (husband|divorced)
Duncan-Jones, Richard (brother)
Duncan-Jones, Austin (father) - Organisaties
- University of Oxford (Somerville College)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Royal Society of Literature (fellow)
- Korte biografie
- Katherine Duncan-Jones is a daughter of the philosopher Austin Duncan-Jones and the literary scholar Elsie Duncan-Jones (née Phare). Her brother is historian Richard Duncan-Jones. She was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, and then studied at Oxford University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Letters degree (as per tradition, later promoted to a Master of Arts degree. In 1971, she married writer A.N. Wilson, with whom she had two daughters.
She specializes in Elizabethan literature, history and biography, especially with reference to original texts and sources in manuscript and early editions. She was the Mary Ewart Residential Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1965. She was then a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge from 1965 to 1966. She returned to Somerville and was Fellow and Tutor in English Literature between 1966 and her retirement in 2001. She was also Professor of English Literature at Oxford University from 1998 to 2001, and is now Professor Emerita. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1991. Her books include Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet (1991), Shakespeare's Poems, edited with H.R. Woudhuysen (2007),
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life (2010), and Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623 ( 2011).
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