Frederick S. Boas

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Frederick Samuel Boas,

early modern drama.[2]

Education

He was born on 24 July 1862, the eldest son of Hermann Boas of Belfast. His family was

Literae Humaniores in 1885 and a 1st in Modern History and BA in 1886, which last he converted to MA
in 1888.

Career

His subsequent career was: Oxford University Extension Lecturer 1887–1901; Professor of English Literature,

D. Litt., Belfast, 1935; broadcast talk 13 July 1939, on Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol; Shakespeare Lecture, British Academy, 1943; President, English Association, 1944; Vice-President, Royal Society of Literature, 1945. He was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Benson Medal in 1952 and an OBE in 1953.[5] In 1952 he began an association with Beatrice White who joined him in creating the annual edition of "The Year's Work in English Studies" which is a bibliography published by the English Association. For four years she co-edited the annual work with him and for the next ten years she continued his project.[6]

Private life

In 1892 he married Henrietta O'Brien, daughter of S. J. Owen, Reader in Indian History at the University of Oxford; they had one son. Frederick Boas died on 1 September 1957.[7]

Works

  • Shakespeare and His Predecessors (1896)
  • The Tempest (1897) editor
  • The Works of Thomas Kyd (1901) editor
  • Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Poetical Works (1908) two volumes, editor
  • Philaster or Love Lies A-Bleeding by Beaumont and Fletcher (1908) editor
  • The taming of the shrew (1908) editor
  • University Drama in the Tudor Age (1914)
  • Songs of Ulster and Balliol (1917)
  • Shakespeare and the Universities: And Other Studies in Elizabethan Drama (1923)
  • The Year's Work in English Studies (1928) co-editor, and annually 1930–1950
  • Marlowe And His Circle: A Biographical Survey (1929)
  • Elizabethan and Other Essays by Sidney Lee (1929) editor
  • An Introduction to the Reading of Shakespeare (1930)
  • Six Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare (1932) editor
  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1932) editor
  • An Introduction to Tudor Drama (1933)
  • Five Pre-Shakespearean Comedies (1934) editor
  • The Diary of Thomas Crosfield (1935) editor
  • From Richardson To Pinero: Some Innovators and Idealists (1936)
  • Christopher Marlowe: A Biographical and Critical Study (1940)
  • American Scenes, Tudor To Georgian, In The Literary Mirror (1944)
  • Songs & Lyrics from the English Playbooks (1945) editor
  • An Introduction to Stuart Drama (1946)
  • Ovid and the Elizabethans (1947)
  • Songs and Lyrics from the English Masques and Light Operas (1949) editor
  • The Change of Crownes: A Tragi-Comedy by The Honourable Edward Howard (1949) editor
  • Thomas Heywood (1950)
  • Queen Elizabeth in Drama and Related Studies (1950)
  • An Introduction to Eighteenth Century Drama 1700–1780 (1953)
  • Sir Philip Sidney, Representative Elizabethan; his life and writings (1955)

References

  1. ^ NPG details
  2. ^ World cat
  3. William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein
    , The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 110
  4. ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p. 71: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  5. ^ BOAS, Frederick S.', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 retrieved 24 Oct 2017
  6. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39549. Retrieved 9 July 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ Dr. F. S. Boas. The Times, London, 2 Sep 1957; p. 10; Issue 53935.

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