Brian Vickers (literary scholar)

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Sir Brian William Vickers

Shakespeare, John Ford, and Francis Bacon. He joined the English department at University College London
as a visiting professor in 2012.

Life

He was born in Cardiff, educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, London and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1962 with a Double First in English, winning both the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship and the Harness Shakespeare Essay Prize. He was awarded his doctorate from Cambridge in 1967, and was a fellow of Downing College[1] from 1966 to 1971 during which time he directed studies in English. In 1972 he became professor ordinarius at ETH Zurich.

He has been a fellow of the

New Year Honours of 2008.[3] He is the general editor of an old-spelling edition of the Complete Works of John Ford, published by Oxford University Press
.

Works

  • (ed.) The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (1967)
  • Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (1968)
  • The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose (1968)
  • The World of Jonathan Swift: essays for the tercentenary (1968)
  • (ed.) Essential articles for the study of Francis Bacon (1968)
  • (ed.) Seventeenth-century Prose: an anthology (1969)
  • Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (1970)
  • Towards Greek Tragedy: drama, myth, society (1973)
  • (ed.) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (six volumes, 1974–81)
  • Francis Bacon (1978)
  • Frances Yates and the Writing of History (1979)
  • Shakespeare's Hypocrites (1979)
  • Rhetorical and Anti-rhetorical Tropes : on writing the history of elocution (1981)
  • (ed.) Shakespeare: Coriolanus (1981)
  • (ed.) Rhetoric Revalued: papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (1982)
  • Epideictic and Epic in the Renaissance (1983)
  • Epideictic rhetoric in Galileo's "Dialogo" (1983)
  • (ed.) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (1984)
  • Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth: language change in the 17th and 18th centuries (1985)
  • Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: the Mackenzie-Evelyn debate (1986)
  • English Science, Bacon to Newton (1987)
  • In Defence of Rhetoric (1988)
  • Returning to Shakespeare (1989)
  • "Leisure and Idleness in the Renaissance: the ambivalence of otium".
    eISSN 1477-4658
    .
  • Arbeit, Musse, Meditation : Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa (1991)
  • Appropriating Shakespeare: contemporary critical quarrels (1993)
  • (ed.) The history of the reign of King Henry VII and selected works by Francis Bacon (1998)
  • (ed.) The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (1999)
  • (ed.) English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1999)
  • Shakespeare, Co-author: a historical study of the five collaborative plays (2002)
  • (ed.) Francis Bacon, The Major Works: [including New Atlantis and the Essays] (2002)
  • Counterfeiting Shakespeare: evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye (2002)
  • (ed. with William Baker) The Merchant of Venice (2005)
  • Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (2007)
  • The One King Lear (2016)

See also

References

  1. ^ [1] University of Cambridge website
  2. ^ "Archived Document". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
  3. ^ "Arise, Sir Brian", Times Literary Supplement website, 2 January 2008.

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