Emrys Jones (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 , arts administrator and television executive . 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 (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, leaving a widow and a daughter Hester, a lecturer at the University of Bristol.^[1][2] His wife was the literary scholar Barbara Everett, with whom he appeared in the 1996 documentary Looking for Richard.^[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)

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