and more consciously a player of roles and a shaper of his own identity.”īaldwin, David. more self-conscious about his own shape . . . more clearly and consistently a type . . . Shakespeare’s protagonist is “both more real as a psychological entity and more imaginary . . . 6), Anderson turns her attention to the “metamorphosis of biographical truth to fiction” in Shakespeare’s play (Chap. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.įollowing a discussion of Sir Thomas More’s History of King Richard III as a mix of history and biography (Chap. Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing. The work was critically very well received and was a runner-up for the National Book Award in 1956.Anderson, Judith H. It relied heavily on primary sources and made a significant contribution to the arguments for a favourable view of Richard.
This work was a scholarly defence of the controversial monarch.
It is for that work that he is best known. In 1952 he was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship which assisted him in completing Richard III, which was published in 1955. He was appointed Distinguished Professor of English in 1959, one of the first three academics at Ohio University to receive this honor In 1937, while studying for a Ph.D he became an instructor in English at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He received an Master's degree in 1933, also from the University of Virginia. In 1932 he received an Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. He graduated from Frankford High School in 1928. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul Murray Kendall (1 March 1911 - 21 November 1973) was an American academic and historian.
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