Masks, Mimes and Miracles

by Allardyce Nicoll

Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1931 PRINTING. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong. COVER MAY NOT MATCH THE PICTURE ON THIS SITE. An excellent reading or reference copy!

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll was a Scottish literary scholar and teacher. He was educated at Stirling High School and the University of Glasgow, where he was the G.A. Clark scholar in English.

He became a lecturer at King's College London in 1920 and took the chair of English at East London College (later Queen Mary's College) in 1923. In 1933 he went to Yale University as professor of the history of drama and dramatic criticism and chair of the drama department. He established a strong graduate programme in theatre history. Around 1943–45 he performed war work at the British embassy in Washington. From 1945 to 1961 he headed the English Department at the University of Birmingham; from 1951 to 1961 he was also founding director of the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham. He served as president of the Society for Theatre Research from 1958 to 1976.