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Professor Ian Donaldson FBA

Elected 1993

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth
1935
Year of death
2020
Year elected
1993
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
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

2007 -

University of Cambridge Grace I Professor of English

1995 - 2002

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1991 - 1995

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

1969 - 1991

Wadham College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in English

1962 - 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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