| LC control no. | n 79113981 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bevington, David M. |
| Variant(s) | Bevington, David |
| Located | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Birth date | 1931-05-13 |
| Death date | 2019-08-02 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | English literature--Study and teaching English literature--History and criticism |
| Affiliation | Harvard University University of Chicago |
| Profession or occupation | English teachers Literary historians |
| Found in | His From Mankind to Marlowe, 1962. His Action is eloquence, 1984: CIP t.p. (David Bevington) Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Sept. 15, 2006 (David M(artin) Bevington; b. May 13, 1931, New York, N.Y.; Harvard University, Ph. D., 1959; University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton distinguished service professor in the humanities, 1985-) Chicago tribune WWW site, viewed Aug. 13, 2019 (in obituary dated Aug 09, 2019: David Bevington, an award-winning teacher and scholar, was a Shakespeare expert who brought the Bard's plays to life and made them relevant for generations of students at the University of Chicago. "He was one of the most preeminent Shakespeare and Renaissance scholars of his generation," said Joshua Scodel, a professor of Renaissance literature. Bevington, 88, died Aug. 2 in his Chicago home. He was born in New York City in 1931. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1948, he attended Harvard University, majoring in history and literature and enrolling in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. After graduating in 1952, he served for three years as a junior officer on a destroyer. After leaving the Navy, Bevington returned to Harvard, earning a doctorate in 1957 and teaching there from 1959 to 1961. He took a visiting teaching position at the University of Chicago in 1967, which in 1968 became a full-time faculty position. In 1985, he was named Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities. His work as a scholar of English literature earned him Guggenheim Fellowships in 1964 and 1981) |
| Associated language | eng |
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