Hume, Robert D.

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HUME, Robert D.

HUME, Robert D. American, b. 1944. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Theatre. Career: Cornell University, assistant, then associate professor of English, 1969-77; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, professor of English, 1977-90, distinguished professor, 1990-91, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, 1991-98, Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature, 1998-. Publications: Dryden's Criticism, 1970; The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century, 1976; The London Theatre World 1660-1800, 1980; Vice Chamberlain Coke's Theatrical Papers 1706-1715, 1982; The Rakish Stage, 1983; Producible Interpretation, 1985; Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1988; A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660-1737, 2 vols., 1991; Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, Vol. I: The King's Theater Haymarket, 1778-1791, 1995, Vol. II: The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath, 17891795, 2001; Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism, 1999. Address: Dept. of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]