Francis Fergusson
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For the architectural historian and former president of Vassar College, see Frances Fergusson.
Francis Fergusson (1904–1986) was an American academic and critic, a theorist of drama and mythology. Fergusson taught for a time on the faculty of the department of English at Rutgers University and is regarded as an influence on poet Robert Pinsky.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Interview with Robert Pinsky in The Anthologist (1997), accessed 17 August 2006.
[edit] Bibliography
- Fergusson, Francis. 1949. The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in a Changing Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1968. ISBN 0691012881.
- Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare
- Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio
- Literary Landmarks: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Literature
- Sallies of the Mind
- Shakespeare: The Pattern in His Carpet
- "Introduction" to Aristotle's Poetics
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