Lionel Charles Knights
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Lionel Charles Knights (15 May 1906-8 March 1997) was an English literary critic, an authority on Shakespeare and his period. His essay How many children had Lady Macbeth? (1933) is a classic of modern criticism. He became King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1965.
He was born in Grantham, and educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History and English, graduating in 1928.
He was a co-editor of Scrutiny, the literary journal of the school of F. R. Leavis's school, from 1932 to 1953 when it ceased publication.
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- How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth. An Essay in the Theory and Practice of Shakespeare Criticism (1933) [1]
- Drama & Society in the Age of Jonson (1937)
- Explorations: Essays in Criticism Mainly On the Literature of the Seventeenth Century (1946)
- Poetry, Politics and the English Tradition (1954)
- Some Shakespearean Themes (1959)
- An Approach to 'Hamlet' (1960)
- Shakespeare: The Histories (1962)
- Further Explorations (1965)
- Public Voices: Literature and Politics With Special Reference to the Seventeenth Century (1971)
- Coleridge's Variety: Bicentennial Studies (1974) editor with John Beer
- Explorations 3: Essays in Criticism (1976)
- Selected Essays in Criticism (1981)
- Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen, with D. W. Harding and Monica Lawlor
