- G. Blakemore Evans
Gwynne Blakemore Evans was an American scholar of
Elizabethan literature best known for editing the "Riverside Shakespeare " edition in 1974.Evans was born in
Columbus, Ohio ; his father, Marshall B. Evans, was a scholar of German atOhio State University , and Evans graduated from that university in 1934. He then attained amaster's degree at theUniversity of Cincinnati in 1936. Hisdoctorate was received fromHarvard University in1940 .During
World War II , Evans served atBletchley Park in England, a centre of Allied spying and decoding.After the war, Evans became a professor of English literature, working at the
University of Wisconsin , theUniversity of Illinois , and finally Harvard, where he becameCabot Professor .Evan's first book was "The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright" (1951), an edition of the obscure poet and playwright
William Cartwright . He also edited "Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the 17th Century" (1960-80), a series of editions of rarepromptbooks .His "Riverside Shakespeare" edition was published in 1974 by
Houghton Mifflin , and became a popular edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Evans co-edited an updated version in1997 . He also edited "Richard III" for theNew Penguin Shakespeare and "Romeo and Juliet " for theNew Cambridge Shakespeare .Evans's last book was "The Poems of Robert Parry", a study of the little-known poet Robert Parry. It was published posthumously after Evans died in 2006 aged 93.
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