"The Institutionalization of Shakespeare Studies in the United Kingdom"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo422/
Author:
	Sawyer, Robert.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 27, no. 42 (2023): 15–29.
DOI:
	10.18778/2083-8530.27.02
Annotation:
	Describes critical approaches of major Shakespearean scholars active around 1920-1940 in the United Kingdom, including I. A. Richards, William Empson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, F. R. Leavis, and Caroline Spurgeon. Shows how these scholars, the formation of named research chairs at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and the Newboldt Report, led to Shakespeare's central place in British English departments and literary criticism. English summary, 15.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Richards, I. A.; Empson, William; Quiller-Couch, Arthur; Leavis, F. R.; Spurgeon, Caroline
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare Scholars
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo422