Peter Alexander (Shakespearean scholar)
Peter Alexander, CBE, FBA (19 September 1893 – 18 June 1969) was a Scottish literary scholar.[1]
Life
[edit]He was the son of Robert Alexander and Christina Cameron McDonald Munn, both schoolteachers; his father died in 1900. He was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, and Whitehill Senior Secondary School in Glasgow. He went to the University of Glasgow in 1911, where John Semple Smart was an influence.[1]
In 1914, Alexander joined the army as a private in the Cameron Highlanders, then becoming an artillery officer. In 1918 after he returned to the University of Glasgow to finish his studies and graduated in 1920 with an MA degree.[1][2]
Alexander was Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow]] and a noted Shakespearean scholar.[1] His collected works of Shakespeare are known as "the Alexander text".[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- Shakespeare (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge)
- Shakespeare's Life and Art, 1939.
- Hamlet: Father and Son, 1955.
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Alexander Text
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Hobsbaum, Philip. "Alexander, Peter (1893–1969)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60292. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Peter Alexander: News: The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ Captain Peter Alexander. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
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