Dadie Rylands

George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands CH CBE (23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director. Educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, he was a Fellow of King's from 1927 until his death.

As well as being one of the world's leading Shakespeare scholars, he was actively involved in the theatre. He directed and acted in many productions for the Marlowe Society, and was Chairman of the Cambridge Arts Theatre from 1946 to 1982.

Rylands' 1939 Shakespeare anthology Ages of Man was the basis of John Gielgud's one-man show of the same title. Though Rylands specialised in directing university productions at Cambridge, he also directed Gielgud in professional productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Hamlet in London in 1945.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1961 and a Companion of Honour (CH) in 1987.^[1]

References

^ T.J.Cribb (20 January 1999). "Obituary: George Rylands". The Independent. Retrieved 16 July 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

George Rylands at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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[IndObit-1] T.J.Cribb (20 January 1999). "Obituary: George Rylands". The Independent. Retrieved 16 July 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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