Edwards, Philip (Walter)

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EDWARDS, Philip (Walter)

EDWARDS, Philip (Walter). British, b. 1923. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Travel/Exploration. Career: Professor of English Literature, Trinity College, Dublin, 1960-66; Professor of Literature, University of Essex, 1966-74; King Alfred Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool, 1974-90. Publications: Sir Walter Raleigh, 1953; Thomas Kyd and Early Elizabethan Tragedy, 1966; Shakespeare and the Confines of Art, 1968; Person and Office in Shakespeare's Plays, 1970; (with C.A. Gibson) Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger, 1976; Threshold of a Nation, 1979; Shakespeare: A Writer's Progress, 1986; Last Voyages, 1988; The Story of the Voyage, 1994; Sea-Mark, 1997. EDITOR: Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy, 1959; Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre, 1976; Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1985; The Journals of Captain Cook, 1999. Address: High Gillinggrove, Gillinggate, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4JB, England. Online address: [email protected]