R. A. Foakes
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Reginald A. Foakes (18Script error: No such module "String".October 1923Template:Snd22Script error: No such module "String".December 2013) was an English author and Shakespeare scholar. He has published works on Shakespeare and the Romantic poets and edited many of Shakespeare's plays in the Arden and New Cambridge editions. He also helped found the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was Professor Emeritus in the department of English literature at UCLA.[1][2] He died at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Beyond Shakespeare, his scholarly work also included editing the theatrical papers of Philip Henslowe, work on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's literary criticism.[3][4]
In 2001, the University of Birmingham gave Foakes an honorary degree in honor of the 50th anniversary of their Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.[5]
References
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- ↑ Faculty profile Template:Webarchive, UCLA, retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ↑ Prof Reginald Foakes, Debrett's, retrieved 2011-11-05.
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- ↑ Professor Reginald Foakes, 1923-2013, University of Birmingham (January 6, 2014)
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Further reading
- Honouring Professor Reg Foakes
- In memory of Reg Foakes
- Imagined Places: A life in the twentieth century (Xlibris, 2005, Template:ISBN), Foakes' autobiography.
- Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes (Grace Ioppolo, ed., University of Delaware Press, 2000, Template:ISBN)