Obituary: Roma Gill

The Independent - London | September 6, 2001| | Copyright

ROMA GILL, the critic and scholar who edited the Jacobean playwrights Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton and Cyril Tourneur became known internationally for the Oxford School Shakespeare series, which she edited from 1978. Her achievements were the more remarkable when seen against 40 years of multiple sclerosis, encroaching and finally almost complete paralysis, and cancer. Her spirit of independence, which perhaps grew from being an only child, in Gill bred a courage to face ill-health with no possibility of a favourable outcome.

Born in 1934 in Keighley and educated ...

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