British literary scholar
Emrys Lloyd Jones , FBA (30 March 1931 – 20 June 2012)[ 1] was a British literary scholar, who specialised in 16th-century literature and the works of Shakespeare .
Born in Hoxton , in London 's East End , on 30 March 1931 to Welsh parents who ran a corner shop , he was evacuated to Glynneath during the Second World War and attended Neath Grammar School where his classmates included the future medieval historian Peter Lewis , arts administrator Roger Howells and television executive David Nicholas . In 1949, he won the three-year Violet Vaughan Morgan scholarship , enabling him to study at Magdalen College, Oxford , after completing his National Service as a clerk in the Royal Artillery . At Oxford, he studied English under C. S. Lewis , graduating in 1954 with the top first-class degree in his year. After Lewis's promotion in 1955, Jones was appointed his successor as fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen. He was appointed a university Reader in English in 1977 and then given the Goldsmith's Professorship of English Literature (which meant moving to a fellowship at New College, Oxford ). He retired in 1998. Jones was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1982. He died on 20 June 2012. His wife was the literary scholar Barbara Everett , with whom he appeared in the 1996 documentary Looking for Richard .,[ 2] and they had one daughter, Hester, a lecturer at the University of Bristol .[ 1] [ 3]
Bibliography
(ed.) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey , Poems , Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press , 1964)
Scenic Form in Shakespeare (Oxford: Clarendon Press , 1971)
The Origins of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1977)
(ed.) William Shakespeare , Antony and Cleopatra , New Penguin Shakespeare (Harmondsworth: Penguin , 1977)
(ed.) The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse , Oxford Books of Prose and Verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1991)
References
^ a b John Carey , "Emrys Lloyd Jones, 1931–2012" , Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy , vol. 13 (2014), pp. 273–291.
^ Burnett, Mark (2000). Shakespeare, film, fin-de-siècle . Basingstoke New York: Macmillan St. Martins. p. 66. ISBN 9780230286795 .
^ "Professor Emrys Jones", The Times (London), 24 July 2012, p. 48. Gale IF0504333711 .