Francis Fergusson
Francis Fergusson (1904–1986) was a Harvard and Oxford-educated
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Born in
Richard Boleslavski and wrote drama criticism for the Herald Tribune. In the early 1930s he founded the drama division of the then new Bennington College in southwestern Vermont. After nearly a decade at Bennington, he moved on to teach at Indiana University and then at Rutgers University, where he taught comparative literature. Among his students were poet Robert Pinsky[5] and fiction writer Alan Cheuse.[citation needed
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Bibliography
- Fergusson, Francis. 1949. The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in a Changing Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1968. ISBN 0-691-01288-1.
- Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare
- Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio
- Literary Landmarks: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Literature
- Sallies of the Mind
- Shakespeare: The Pattern in His Carpet
- "Introduction" to Aristotle's Poetics
- Francis Fergusson and Harold Clurman, "On the Poetics," Tulane Drama Review 4.4 (1960): 23–32.
References
- ISBN 978-0809005277
- ISBN 978-1-4128-3362-2. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Interview of Herbert Smith by Charles Weiner on 1974 August 1, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, [1]
- ISBN 978-0375726262.
- Paris Review(Fall 1997)
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