Education
He was educated at University College, London, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was educated at University College, London, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was lecturer in English at Cambridge from 1896 to 1906, then professor of English language and literature at the University of London, a post he held until his death. He was the first secretary of the British Academy. An outstanding student of Shakespeare, he edited the Temple Shakespeare (1894) and Sources of Hamlet (1926). He also edited the King's Library series, the Temple Classics, Gawain and the Grene Knight for the Early English Text Society, and the Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (1895).