B. A. W. Jackson

Berners A. W. Jackson (3 February 1916 – 9 October 2003) was a British Shakespeare scholar who organised the Shakespeare Seminar at the Stratford Festival between 1961 and 1976. He also edited the Stratford Papers.[1]

Early life

Berners[2] Jackson was born in London on 3 February 1916. He received his BA from McMaster University in 1939 and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1956[3] for a thesis titled "The concept of honour in Elizabethan and early Stuart times".[4]

Career

Jackson taught at the English department of McMaster University between 1956 and 1981.[3] He organised the Shakespeare Seminar of the Stratford Festival (Stratford, Ontario) held from 1961 to 1976[3] and edited the Stratford Papers on William Shakespeare.[2] He also edited the Pelican edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1964 and the revised edition in 1980, as well as the Macmillan Canada edition of Antony and Cleopatra published in 1968.[3]

In 2000 he donated a collection of his papers to the archives of McMaster University.[3]

Selected publications
  • "Shakespeare at Stratford, Ontario, 1971", Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 22 (1971), pp. 369–370.
  • Manner and Meaning in Shakespeare. McMaster University Library Press & Irish University Press, 1970. (editor) ISBN 9780716505228
  • Shakespeare in the New World. McMaster University Library Press, 1972. (editor) ISBN 9780969027010

References
  1. "JACKSON, Berners Archdale Wallace (Barney)". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. Stratford papers on Shakespeare. Trove. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  3. B.A.W. Jackson fonds. McMaster University. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  4. The concept of honour in Elizabethan and early Stuart times. WorldCat. Retrieved 28 February 2019.


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