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Randall, Dale Bertrand Jonas was born on March 18, 1929 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States. Son of Myron Welcome and Lettie Jane (Perrin) Randall.
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Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many lesser-known and anonymous writers. A reader will find, among others, a counterfeiter, a midwife, an astrologer, a princess, a diarist, and a Harvard graduate. Altogether this broad range of writers, famed and forgotten alike, brings to light not only sectarian and political tensions of the day, but also glimpses of the arts-of weaving, singing, acting, engraving, and painting. Even dancing, for there was a dance called the "Sancho Panzo". The volume opens with a wide-ranging Introduction that among other things traces the English reception of both Cervantes's Don Quixote and his Novelas ejemplares, including the part they played in English drama. In the main body of the work, individual items are arranged chronologically by year and, within that framework, alphabetically by author, thus providing little-known seventeenth-century evidence regarding the nature and breadth of British interest in Cervantes in various decades. Thorough annotation helps readers to place individual entries in their historical, social, political, and in some instances religious contexts. The volume includes twenty-nine germane seventeenth-century pictures, an index of references to chapters in Don Quixote, and a full bibliography and index.
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Randall, Dale Bertrand Jonas was born on March 18, 1929 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States. Son of Myron Welcome and Lettie Jane (Perrin) Randall.
Bachelor, Western Reserve University, 1951. Master of Arts, Rutgers University, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1958.
Teaching assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1951-1953;
Teaching assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1953-1957;
instructor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1957-1960;
assistant professor of English, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1965;
associate professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1965-1970;
professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, since 1970;
professor dramatic literature, Duke U., 1991-1994;
professor of practice of theater arts, Duke U., since 1994;
interim director, Duke Drama, Durham, North Carolina, 1991-1992. Chairman Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1969-1974, 75-76. Chairman Duke Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham, 1971-1972, governing committee, 1969-1989, 93-97.
Member central Executive Committee Folger Institute, Washington, 1983-1992. Associate trustee Chi Psi Ednl. Trust, 1994-1996, trustee, since 1996.
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Active Friends of Duke U. Library., Friends of the Bodleian Library. Member Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Gypsy Lore Society, International Shakespeare Association, Southeastern Renaissance Conference (advisory county 1984-1995, vice president 1992-1993, president 1993-1994, chair advisory county 1994-1995), Renaissance Society American, Shakespeare Association American, Malone Society, Marlowe Society, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, Renaissance Text Society, Symposium on British Studies.
Married Phyllis Rosanna Link, June 25, 1955. Children: Lettie Rosanna, Kenneth Dale.