Fraser, Russell A(lfred)

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FRASER, Russell A(lfred)

FRASER, Russell A(lfred). American, b. 1927. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Instructor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1950; Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1951-56; Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1956-65 (Associate Dean, Graduate School, 1962-65); Professor and Chairman of English Dept., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1965-68; Austin Warren Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968-95; (Chairman, Dept. of English Language and Literature, 1968-73). Publications: The Court of Venus, 1955; The Court of Virtue, 1962; Shakespeare's Poetics, 1962; King Lear (criticism), 1963; The War Against Poetry, 1970; An Essential Shakespeare, Nine Plays and the Sonnets, 1972; The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold, 1973; (with N. Rabkin) Drama of the English Renaissance, 2 vols., 1976; The Language of Adam, 1976; A Mingled Yarn: The Life of R.P. Blackmur, 1981; The Three Romes, 1985; Young Shakespeare, 1988; Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992; Singing Masters: Poets in English, 1500 to the Present, 1999. EDITOR: Selected Writings of Oscar Wilde, 1969; All's Well That Ends Well, 1985. Address: 2685 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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