Thomas Marc Parrott was a prominent twentieth-century American literary scholar, long a member of the faculty of Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in New Jersey.

T. M. Parrott was born and raised in Ohio, the son of Col. Edwin A. Parrott, Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 veteran, politician (Speaker of the lower house of the Ohio state legislature, 1866–7), and centenarian. The younger Parrott graduated from the College of New Jersey, later known as Princeton, in 1888, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

 in 1893. His thesis was on the non-dramatic poems of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...

. Parrott became assistant professor of English at Princeton in 1896, and full professor at the same institution in 1902. He remained there for the next three decades.

Parrott wrote and published voluminously on a wide range of subjects in English literature, though his special areas of interest were English Renaissance theatre

English Renaissance theatre

English Renaissance theatre, also known as early modern English theatre, refers to the theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642...

 and Victorian literature

Victorian literature

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria . It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century....

; he also published on eighteenth-century figures like Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...

 and Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...

. Parrott wrote many books and journal articles on Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

 and other Elizabethans; perhaps his most valuable contribution lies in his work on the canon of George Chapman

George Chapman

George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets...

. Parrott edited the comedies and tragedies of Chapman (1910–14), an edition that is still valuable a century after it was first published.

Selected Works by T. M. Parrott

• The Greater Victorian Poets (1901)
• The World's Great Woman Novelists (1901)
• Samuel Johnson, Philosopher and Autocrat (1903)
• The Authorship of "Sir Giles Goosecappe" (1906)
• The Date of Chapman's "Bussy D'Ambois" (1908)
• Hamlet on the Stage (1953)

See also

• Joseph Quincy Adams
  Joseph Quincy Adams
  Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr. was a prominent Shakespeare scholar and the first director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C....
  
  
• G. E. Bentley
  Gerald Eades Bentley
  Gerald Eades Bentley was an American academic and literary scholar, best remembered for his The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, published by Oxford University Press in seven volumes between 1941 and 1968...
  
  
• E. K. Chambers
  Edmund Kerchever Chambers
  Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. His four-volume history of Elizabethan theater, published in 1923, remains a standard resource for scholars of the period's drama....
  
  
• R. W. Chambers
  Raymond Wilson Chambers
  Raymond Wilson Chambers was a British literary scholar, author, and academic; throughout his career he was associated with University College London .-Life:...
  
  
• W. W. Greg
  Walter Wilson Greg
  Sir Walter Wilson Greg was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century....
  
  

• Andrew Gurr
  Andrew Gurr
  Andrew John Gurr is a contemporary literary scholar who specializes in William Shakespeare and English Renaissance theatre.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Alfred Harbage
  Alfred Harbage
  Alfred Bennett Harbage was an influential Shakespeare scholar of the mid-20th century. He was born in Philadelphia and received his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He lectured on Shakespeare both there and at Columbia before becoming a professor at Harvard...
  
  
• Cyrus Hoy
  Cyrus Hoy
  Cyrus Hoy was a literary scholar of the English Renaissance stage who taught at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University, and was the John B. Trevor Professor of English at the University of Rochester...
  
  
• Kenneth Muir
  Kenneth Muir (scholar)
  Kenneth Arthur Muir was a twentieth-century literary scholar and author, prominent in the fields of Shakespeare studies and English Renaissance theatre...
  
  
• Alfred W. Pollard
  Alfred W. Pollard
  Alfred William Pollard was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean texts....
  
  

• Samuel Schoenbaum
  Samuel Schoenbaum
  Samuel Schoenbaum was a leading 20th century Shakespearean biographer and scholar.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. He later taught at the City...
  
  
• E. M. Thompson
• Charles William Wallace
  Charles William Wallace
  Charles William Wallace was an American scholar and researcher, famed for his discoveries in the field of English Renaissance theatre.Wallace was born in Hopkins, Missouri to Thomas Dickay Wallace and Olive McEwen...
  
  
• John Dover Wilson

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