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George Richard Hibbard (G.R. Hibbard, 1915-1992) was a Shakespearean scholar and professor emeritus at Waterloo University in Ontario who edited Hamlet and other plays for The Oxford Shakespeare. In 1967 he started the biennial International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre, Waterloo, which was later co-ordinated with the Stratford Festival and continues to the present. He contributed articles to the Renaissance Quarterly.

As a teacher, he dazzled students with his prodigious memory, effortlessly reciting long passages of verse from not only Shakespeare but lesser known lights such as George Chapman and John Marston. As an editor of Shakespeare's plays, he was known to favor readings from the First Folio of 1623 that added to the dramatic value of the play as performed on the modern stage.

Biography

Little has been published about Hibbard's personal life; the festschrift presented to him in 1984 (Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard) contains no biographical information, or even a list of his publications. It is known that, after military service during World War II, Hubbard became a professor of English literature at the University of Nottingham in 1946, where he was a colleague of Vivian de Sola Pinto, for whom he later edited a festschrift. In 1967 he established a biennial conference on Elizabethan Theatre at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. In 1970 he became professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. His wife Louise passed away unexpectedly during his final years there. When he retired in 1984, the university honored him with the degree of professor emeritus, and he was presented with a festschrift by his colleagues. Thereafter he returned to England, where he edited Love's Labor Lost, published in 1990 as part of The Oxford Shakespeare, and died in 1992.

International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre

In 1967 Hibbard organized an International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre at Waterloo, Ontario, subsequently held every two years. Hibbard's conferences were said to have "done much to foster an integrated vision of Shakespeare's genius."

Since 2015 the conference has been called the Shakespearean Theatre Conference and has been a formal collaboration between the University of Waterloo and the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Recent conferences have been held on the Stratford campus of the University of Waterloo. Currently the conference is co-organized by Kenneth J.E. Graham and Alysia Kolentsis of the University of Waterloo.

Major publications

Hibbard's editions of Shakespearean plays have been republished numerous times up to the present day. For example, in 2007 a special Letterpress Hamlet From the Folio Society appeared. In the following list, the date of first publication is shown.

Books (editor)

• Renaissance and modern essays. Presented to Vivian de Sola Pinto in celebration of his seventieth birthday (London: Routledge and Paul, 1966)(New York, Barnes & Noble: 1966) (collection of 19 essays, edited by G.R. Hibbard, with the assistance of George A. Panichas and Allan Rodway).
• The Taming of the Shrew (New Penguin Shakespeare) (Mar 31, 1968)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor edited by G.R. Hibbard (with an introduction by Catherine Richardson in Penguin Shakespeare).
• Hibbard, G. R., ed. (1987). Hamlet. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-283416-9.
• Love's Labour's Lost, (1990, Oxford University Press).
• Bartholmew Fair by Ben Jonson; ed. G R Hibbard (reprinted: London : A. & C. Black ; New York : W.W. Norton, 2007).

Books (author)

• Thomas Nashe: a critical introduction (Harvard University Press, 1962).
• Three Elizabethan pamphlets by G R Hibbard; Robert Greene; Thomas Nash; Thomas Dekker (Books for Libraries, 1969).
• The Making of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry (Dec 1, 1981)

Articles

• Hibbard, G. R. "The Country House Poem of the Seventeenth Century." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 9 (1956). Standard article on the subject.
• Hibbard, George R. "Goodness and greatness: An essay on the tragedies of Ben Jonson and George Chapman." Culture, Theory and Critique 11, no. 1 (1967): 5-54.

Conference proceedings

The International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre : University of Waterloo, Ontario was organized by Hibbard, and the conference proceedings were edited by him. For the first three conferences, a journal form was used. Hibbard edited the first conferences; the editorship was assumed by C. Edward McGee with the tenth conference.

• The Elizabethan theatre IV. Papers given at the Fourth International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre held at the Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario, in July 1972 (London: Macmillan 1974).
• The Elizabethan theatre V : papers given at the fifth international conference on Elizabethan theatre held at the Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario, in July 1973 (London: Macmillan, 1975).
• The Elizabethan theatre VI : papers given at the 6th International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre : University of Waterloo, Ontario, in July 1975 (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978).
• Papers given at the Seventh International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre held at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in July 1977 (London: Macmillan, 1981.)
• The Elizabethan Theatre VIII: Proceedings of the International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre, Waterloo, 1979. Ed. George R. Hibbard.
• The Elizabethan theatre IX. Papers given at the 9. International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre held at the Univ. of Waterloo, in July 1981. (Ontario: P D Meany 1981)

Honors

Upon his retirement in 1984, Hibbard was made a professor emeritus by the University of Waterloo, and presented with a festschrift, Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard, containing twenty-one essays by his colleagues, under the editorial direction of J. C. Gray (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

External links

• Shakespearean Theatre Conference, University of Waterloo, Ontario.

References

Category:1915 births Category:Shakespearean scholars