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Bentley, Gerald Eades was born on September 15, 1901 in Brazil, Indiana, United States. Son of Layton Coval and Josephine Cynthia (Eades) Bentley.
(from chapter 1: "This book is an attempt to understand th...)
from chapter 1: "This book is an attempt to understand the regard in which Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were held by their contemporaries and successors in the seventeenth century. ... tendency to foist our own critical standards and literary judgments upon the public of Marlowe or Milton or Shakespeare is no doubt perfectly natural, but it is nonetheless a gross and dangerous distortion. ...To understand fully the standing of any dramatist in the seventeenth century we should need, for every year in the century, complete records ... If we test all these allusions by a single standard of validity and distribute them into decades and types, we have a body of material, reliable though incomplete, upon which we can base a sounder estimate of the reputations of Shakespeare and Jonson than any other which has been offered. Such testing, distribution, and analysis of the results is the purpose of the succeeding chapters."
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Bentley presents the life and working methods of William Shakespeare with the strictest fidelity to the surviving documentation. By presenting the hundred or more surviving Shakespearean documents in the context of similar records, against the background of Elizabethan customs and prejudices, and in relation to one another, he sets up an essential outline of Shakespeare's life.
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( Bentley presents the life and working methods of Willia...)
Bentley presents the life and working methods of William Shakespeare with the strictest fidelity to the surviving documentation. By presenting the hundred or more surviving Shakespearean documents in the context of similar records, against the background of Elizabethan customs and prejudices, and in relation to one another, he sets up an essential outline of Shakespeare's life.
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Bentley, Gerald Eades was born on September 15, 1901 in Brazil, Indiana, United States. Son of Layton Coval and Josephine Cynthia (Eades) Bentley.
AB, DePauw University, 1923. Doctor of Letters (honorary), DePauw University, 1949. AM, University Illinois, 1926.
Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1929. Master of Arts (honorary), Cambridge University, England, 1952. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Birmingham, England, 1959.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Long Island University, 1975. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Indiana, 1970.
Instructor English, University of Illinois, 1923-1926; instructor English, New Mexico Military Institute, 1926-1927; from instructor to Professor of English, University of Chicago, 1929-1945; Professor of English, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1945-1970; Murray professor, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1952-1970; librarian rare books and special collections, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1971-1972; bibliographer, consultant, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1972-1974. Lecturer Lent term Cambridge U., England, 1953, Postgraduate School ElizabethanStudies, U. Birmingham, summers 1947, 53, 57, 62, Harvard University, summer1955.
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( Bentley presents the life and working methods of Willia...)
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Member Jesus College (Cambridge) Society, Modern Humanities Research Association, Shakespeare Society of America (president 1972-1974), Malone Society (president 1970-1989), Bibliographical Society, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Science, American Society Theatre Research, Phi Kappa Psi. Clubs: Century (New York City). Nassau (Princeton).
Married Esther Greenwood Felt, September 12, 1927 (deceased 1961). 1 child, Gerald Eades. Married Ellen Voigt Stern, August 25, 1965 (deceased 1990).