Background
Cunliffe, John William was born on January 20, 1865 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas and Mary Anne (Kershaw) Cunliffe.
Cunliffe, John William was born on January 20, 1865 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas and Mary Anne (Kershaw) Cunliffe.
Bachelor of Arts, University of London, 1884, Master of Arts (in classics), 1886, Master of Arts (modern languages), 1888, Doctorate.Lit., 1892. Shakespeare scholar, Owens College (now University of Manchester), 1885-1886, Berkeley fellow, 1891-1892. Doctor of Letters, Columbia University, 1929.
English and department chairman, University of Wisconsin, 1907-1912. Professor of English and associate director School of Journalism, Columbia University, 1912-1920, director, 1920-1923, director emeritus since 1931. First vice president Modern Language Association of America, 1910.
Director London Branch American University Union in Europe, 1918-1919.
Trustee and secretary of board, same, 1919-1925. Author: The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy, 1893.
A Canadian Soldier, 1917. English Literature During the Last Half Century, 1919.
(in collaboration with P. de Bacourt) French Literature During the Last Half Century, 1923.
Modern English Playwrights, 1927. Pictured Story of English Literature, 1933. English Literature in the Twentieth Century, 1933.
Leaders of the Victorian Revolution, 1934.
England in Picture, Song and Story, 1936. Editor: Gascoigne’s Supposes and Jocasta, 1906.
Gascoigne’s Complete Works, 1907-1910. Browning’s Shorter Poems, 1909.
Shakespeare's As You Like lieutenant, 1910.
Century Readings in English Literature, 1910, 5th edit, 1940. Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1911. Thackeray’s English Humorists, 1911.
Early English Classical Tragedies, 1912.
Shakespeare's Principal Plays, 1914, 3d edit, 1935. Writing of Today (with G. R. Lomer), 1915, 4th edit, 1925.
Poems of the Great War, 1916. Century Readings in the Old Testament, 1923.
Century Readings in the New Testament, 1923.
Century Readings in European Literature (Medieval and Modern), 1925. Century Readings in the English Novel, 1930. Century Readings in Victorian Prose, 1935.
Contributor to philological journals and to Cambridge History of English Literature.
Joint Editor, revised edit of Warner Library, 1917-1918. Chairman editorial board, Columbia University Course in Literature, 1928-1929.*.
Married Jane Erskine, 1897.