Richard Wade Bevis

Background

Richard Wade Bevis was born on June 4, 1937, in New York, United States. He is the son of Herman W. and Virginia Lyda Bevis.

Education

Richard Wade Bevis graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1952, the University of California, Berkeley with a Master of Arts in English in 1962, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English in 1965.

Career

Richard W. Bevis began his career as an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, 1965-1970. In 1970 Bevis moved to Canada and was appointed Associate Professor, then Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he worked from 1970-1997.

Bevis also was a book reviewer for the Canadian press (Canadian Literature), from the 1970s.

Richard wrote several books including Eighteenth-Century Drama: Afterpieces (1970), Bibliotheca Cisorientalia: An Annotated Checklist of Early English Travel Books on the Near and Middle East (1973), The Laughing Tradition: Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day (1980), English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660-1789 (1987), The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature (1999), Dudes and Savages: The Resonance of Yellowstone (2011).

Achievements

• Richard W. Bevis did rigorous research on the history of the London theatre. He wrote an informative and intelligent study - The Laughing Tradition: Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day (1980).

Works

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  • English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1789

    (What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousnes...)

    1987
  • Dudes and Savages: The Resonance of Yellowstone

    (In a book that is part memoir, part documentary and part ...)

    2011
  • The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature

    (Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and Nor...)

    1999
  • Images of Liberty: The Modern Aesthetics of Great Natural Space

    (Our ancestors did not always see the beauty in the starkn...)

    2010
  • Wanderjahr: An odyssey of sorts

    (This is a story of two young men, fresh from school, as t...)

    2013
  • Eighteenth Century Drama: Ffterpieces 1970
  • Bibliotheca Cisorientalia: An Annotated Checklist of Early English Travel Books on the Near and Middle East 1973
  • The Laughing Tradition: Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day 1980
  • Mind the Gap!: Improving Transition between Key Stage 2 and 3 2005

Interests

• Culture, poetry and folklore of East and Middle East.

Connections

Richard Bevis is married to Vivian Leamer. The wedding was held on August 6, 1960. They have a daughter.

Father:

Herman W. Bevis

Mother:

Virginia Lyda (Wade) Bevis

Wife:

Vivian Leamer

Daughter:

Linda D. Bevis