Professor Ian Donaldson FBA

Elected 1993

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth: 1935
Year of death: 2020
Year elected: 1993
Subjects: Literature
Website: http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/professor-ian-donaldson

English Language and Literature

Past appointments

Other Foreign Institutions Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne

Jan 2007 -

University of Cambridge Grace I Professor of English

Jan 1995 - Jan 2002

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

Jan 1991 - Jan 1995

Australian National University Professor of English and from 1974 Director, Humanities Research Centre

Jan 1969 - Jan 1991

Wadham College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in English

Apr 1962 - Jul 1969

Publications

Cambridge Edition of Works of Ben Jonson 7 vols print + online 2012 print; 2014, 2015 online

The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding 1970

Ben Jonson A Life 2012

The rapes of Lucretia: a myth and its transformations 1982

Ben Jonson 1985

Jonson's Magic houses: essays in interpretation 1997

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