Background
Larry Stephen Champion was born on April 27, 1932, in Shelby, North Carolina, United States. He is the son of Flay Oren and Mary (Helms) Champion.
405 N Main St, Davidson, NC 28035, United States
Davidson College where Larry Champion received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
The University of Virginia where Larry Champion received a Master of Arts degree.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where Larry Champion received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(The evolution of Shakespeare’s comedy, in Larry Champion’...)
The evolution of Shakespeare’s comedy, in Larry Champion’s view, is apparent in the expansion of his comic vision to include a complete reflection of human life while maintaining a comic detachment for the audience. Like the other popular dramatists of Elizabethan England, Shakespeare used the diverse comic motifs and devices in which time and custom had proved effective. He went further, however, and created progressively deeper levels of characterization and plot interaction, thereby forming characters who were not merely devices subordinated to the needs of the plot.
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1970
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This volume presents fifteen original essays that move from structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and cultural significance. Contributors to Quick Springs of Sense cover a remarkably wide variety of the literary interests and figures of England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the periodical, Gulliver’s Travels, Defoe, Fielding, the episodic novel as a genre, Smollett, Sterne, and the poetry of Swift and Pope. Its variety and liveliness aptly convey the vigor of the neoclassical age itself where there were many quick springs of sense.
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1974
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Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience while simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish. Covering the tragedies in chronological order from Titus Andronicus through Antony and Cleopatra, Larry S. Champion examines such devices as tragic pointers, character parallels, foils, subplots, diversionary episodes, cosmic ramifications, analytic asides, and soliloquies. The assumption underlying this book is that Shakespeare had something to communicated - a vision, a complex view of the world - and that his dramatic technique developed as his vision grew.
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1976
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Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare’s English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience’s angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play - one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare’s dramaturgy after Richard II.
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1980
(Through an examination of drama spanning the Elizabethan-...)
Through an examination of drama spanning the Elizabethan-Jacobean-Caroline period, Thomas Dekker and the Traditions of English Drama provides new insights into the evolution of the genre and of Thomas Dekker's contribution to this development. His insistent determination to experiment is best reflected in the steady advance in form in his early romantic comedies, in his interweaving of divergent comic modes in The Roaring Girl, in his use of a wide variety of medieval dramatic techniques in setting the legend of Dorothea to stage in The Virgin Martyr, and in his examination of profound moral and social ambiguities in The Witch of Edmonton.
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1985
Larry Stephen Champion was born on April 27, 1932, in Shelby, North Carolina, United States. He is the son of Flay Oren and Mary (Helms) Champion.
Larry Champion studied at Davidson College and graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954. He received a Master of Arts degree at the University of Virginia in 1955. In 1960 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Before Larry Champion began working at North Carolina State University, he was an instructor at Davidson College, North Carolina, from 1955 till 1956. Then he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill and worked as a teaching fellow from 1958 till 1959 and then as a teaching assistant till 1960.
Larry S. Champion joined the North Carolina State University in 1960 and became an instructor and in 1961 an assistant professor. In 1968, he was appointed as an associate head of the English Department, and in 1971 he was appointed as a department head.
In 1977-1978 Larry Champion was President at the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. In 1984 he was a lecturer at the James Edwin Savage Annual Lecture at the University of Mississippi. Larry was a consultant at South Carolina Commission on Higher Education in 1985 and 1993 as well.
He is also an author of books on English literature including Evolution of Shakespeare's comedy (1970), Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective (1976), Tragic Patterns in Jacobean and Caroline Drama (1977), Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories (1980), and others.
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1990(Through an examination of drama spanning the Elizabethan-...)
1985(Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective directs attention to the...)
1976(The evolution of Shakespeare’s comedy, in Larry Champion’...)
1970(This volume presents fifteen original essays that move fr...)
1974(Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare’s English history ...)
1980Larry Champion was a member of the American Association of University Professors, Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Shakespeare Association American, Renaissance Society American, National Council Teachers English, North Carolina English Teachers Association, North Carolina-Virginia College English Association, College English Association, South Atlantic Association Depts. English, International Shakespeare Association, Malone Society, Folger Institute Renaissance and 18th Century Studies, and PhiBeta Kappa.
Larry Champion married Nancy Blanchard on December 22, 1956. The marriage produced three children.