Barbara Mowat
Barbara Adams Mowat (29 January 1934 – 24 November 2017) was an American literary scholar who served as director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library and co-edited more than 40 editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems with Paul Werstine.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born Barbara Sue Adams in Eufaula, Alabama, she graduated with a mathematics degree from Auburn University in 1956 and pursued graduate studies in philosophy of science in Innsbruck, Austria, on a Fulbright scholarship.[2][3] She later earned a master's degree in English literature from the University of Virginia in 1961 and a Ph.D. from Auburn University in 1968.[2]
Mowat taught at Auburn University from 1969 to 1980 and was dean at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before joining the Folger Shakespeare Library.[2] She researched on themes of magic and supernatural elements in Shakespearean drama, such as witches in Macbeth and supernatural figures in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Julius Caesar.[2]
She married John G. Mowat in Austria and had two children.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Post, Bart Barnes, The Washington. "Shakespeare scholar Barbara Adams Mowat dies". The Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
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- ^ "Barbara A. Mowat - Folgerpedia". folgerpedia.folger.edu.