Ashley Horace Thorndike
Ashley Horace Thorndike (1871 – April 17, 1933) was an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare.
He taught at Columbia University and wrote several notable textbooks, including Facts about Shakespeare, Tragedy, and English Comedy. He died of a heart attack in Manhattan as he was walking home from a club dinner. He was the brother of the medieval historian Lynn Thorndike. He introduced the term "revenge tragedy" in 1900 to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras.
References
- Staff report (April 18, 1933) Dr. A.H. Thorndike Dies in a Taxicab; World Famous as Shakespearean Scholar. New York Times
External links
- Works by Ashley Horace Thorndike at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ashley Horace Thorndike at Internet Archive
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