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2 unusual facts about Samuel Schoenbaum


Portrait of Anne Hathaway

However, the fact that the lines accompanying it are a pastiche of Jonson's lines on Shakespeare led the Shakespeare scholar Samuel Schoenbaum to conclude that the drawing was probably a playful attempt to create a parallel image to that of the poet himself, though since it was almost certainly a copy of an authentic Elizabethan portrait, the "exciting" possibly that the original actually depicted Hathaway could not be ruled out.

Samuel Schoenbaum

Born in New York, Schoenbaum taught at Northwestern University from 1953 to 1975, serving for the last four years of this period as the Frank Bliss Snyder Professor of English Literature.


Associated University Presses

Prominent academics whose works have been published by AUP include the Shakespearean biographer and scholar Samuel Schoenbaum, and Princeton professor of Japanese literature, Earl Miner.


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