French farce & John Heywood

by Ian Ramsay Maxwell

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175 pages, Unknown Binding

First published December 31, 1978

About the author

Ian Ramsay Maxwell (1901-1979), professor of English, was born on 27 June 1901 at Hawthorn, Melbourne; educ. University of Melbourne (B.A. Hons, 1923; LL.B., 1925); admitted to the Bar on 16 July 1926, he practised as a barrister until 1931; went to Balliol College, Oxford (B.Litt., 1935); in 1934-36 he taught as docent in English at the University of Copenhagen; appointed in 1936 to the Department of English at the University of Sydney where he remained until 1945; in 1946 he returned to his native Victoria, having been appointed to the chair of English language and literature at the University of Melbourne; he published little, being chiefly famous for his spellbinding lectures and for his latterly acquired enthusiasm for Old Icelandic language and literature; he died on 4 September 1979 at Heidelberg