William Camden is an American academic and literary scholar best known for his seven-volume work Britannia, a masterpiece of historical writing tracing the history of England from the Birth of Christ in The Year Zero to the death of William Shakespeare in 1616. Camden’s four-volume work Revelations of William Shakespeare has become a standard and essential reference work on Tudor and Stuart drama.
Camden was born in Gary, Indiana in 1948, the son of an Evangelical clergyman. Originally intending to be a creative writer, Camden changed his career to literary scholarship during his graduate studies at Hudson University. Camden earned his B.A. with honors in English at Bloomsbury State University (1969), his M.A. in English at Hudson University (1971), his M.Phil in Philosophy at Oxford University (1973), his Ph.D. at Olinger University (1975), and his D.Litt in English and Comparative Literature [in the first column] at New Tammany University studying under S. F. "Fred" Johnson. In a highly unusual development, Camden wrote two dissertations: The Strange Allegories of William Shakespeare and The Professors of Jocularity: A Study of Black Comedy [simultaneously]. Camden taught at Hudson University from 1976 to 1992 before accepting a position as Sub Par Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Olinger University in 1993—where he taught until his retirement in 2011. During his tenure, Camden supervised 90 dissertations, theses, and satires and served as Chairman of the Department of English from 2000 to 2005.
In addition to Revelations of William Shakespeare, Camden wrote a wide range of essays on Shakespeare and other dramatists of the English Renaissance. Camden’s essay "I Spit My Last Breath at Thee," originally published in the inaugural issue of the New and Improved Shakespeare Survey With Textual Analysis in 2003, has been widely reprinted. Camden has edited several works for modern readers, including The Lover’s Tragedy and The Luck of the Tristero. Camden's work has been cited by scholars in 15 fields of endeavor 1,010 times. In 2014, ten of Camden’s students, Lord Burghley, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Emilia Lanyer, Tom Moore, Ben Jonson, and Leonard Digges published a festschrift in Camden’s honor.
In Shakespeare Quiz 2017 [undoubtedly a classic], you will find an introduction to the Bard by the world's greatest authority on Shakespeare and his contemporaries—William Camden.
This introduction to Shakespeare includes questioning and answering, questioning and answering using the Socratic Method, highly speculative essays grounded in rock-solid scholarship, and an annotated and updated edition of the most famous non-Shakespearean drama in the Renaissance: The Lover’s Tragedy.
Without fear of contradiction, we can say that The Shakespeare Quiz 2017 is the most important literary event since the publication of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum in 1611.
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Camden was born in Gary, Indiana in 1948, the son of an Evangelical clergyman. Originally intending to be a creative writer, Camden changed his career to literary scholarship during his graduate studies at Hudson University. Camden earned his B.A. with honors in English at Bloomsbury State University (1969), his M.A. in English at Hudson University (1971), his M.Phil in Philosophy at Oxford University (1973), his Ph.D. at Olinger University (1975), and his D.Litt in English and Comparative Literature [in the first column] at New Tammany University studying under S. F. "Fred" Johnson. In a highly unusual development, Camden wrote two dissertations: The Strange Allegories of William Shakespeare and The Professors of Jocularity: A Study of Black Comedy [simultaneously]. Camden taught at Hudson University from 1976 to 1992 before accepting a position as Sub Par Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Olinger University in 1993—where he taught until his retirement in 2011. During his tenure, Camden supervised 90 dissertations, theses, and satires and served as Chairman of the Department of English from 2000 to 2005.
In addition to Revelations of William Shakespeare, Camden wrote a wide range of essays on Shakespeare and other dramatists of the English Renaissance. Camden’s essay "I Spit My Last Breath at Thee," originally published in the inaugural issue of the New and Improved Shakespeare Survey With Textual Analysis in 2003, has been widely reprinted. Camden has edited several works for modern readers, including The Lover’s Tragedy and The Luck of the Tristero. Camden's work has been cited by scholars in 15 fields of endeavor 1,010 times. In 2014, ten of Camden’s students, Lord Burghley, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Emilia Lanyer, Tom Moore, Ben Jonson, and Leonard Digges published a festschrift in Camden’s honor.
In Shakespeare Quiz 2017 [undoubtedly a classic], you will find an introduction to the Bard by the world's greatest authority on Shakespeare and his contemporaries—William Camden.
This introduction to Shakespeare includes questioning and answering, questioning and answering using the Socratic Method, highly speculative essays grounded in rock-solid scholarship, and an annotated and updated edition of the most famous non-Shakespearean drama in the Renaissance: The Lover’s Tragedy.
Without fear of contradiction, we can say that The Shakespeare Quiz 2017 is the most important literary event since the publication of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum in 1611.
Open Access Policy
You are free to share, copy, or redistribute the materials in this text in any medium or format. You are free to adapt, reuse, modify, transform, or build upon the materials in this text for any purpose whatsoever.
