Champion, Larry S.

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CHAMPION, Larry S.

CHAMPION, Larry S. American, b. 1932. Genres: Novellas/Short stories, Literary criticism and history, Bibliography. Career: Davidson College, North Carolina, Instructor in English, 1955-56; with U.S. Army, Panama, 1956-58; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dept. of English, Teaching Fellow, 1958-60; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, joined Dept. as Instructor, 1960, Associate Head, 1967-71, Head of Dept., 1971-84, Professor, 1971-94, Emeritus Professor of English, 1994-. Publications: Ben Jonson's Dotages, 1967; The Evolution of Shakespeare's Comedy, 1970; Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective, 1976; Tragic Patterns in Jacobean and Caroline Drama, 1977; Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories, 1980; Thomas Dekker and the Traditions of English Drama, 1985; The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies, 1986, 2nd ed., 1993; The Noise of Threatening Drum: Dramatic Strategy and Political Ideology in Shakespeare and the English Chronicle Plays, 1990. EDITOR: Quick Springs of Sense: Studies in the 18th Century, 1974; The Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies: King Lear, 2 vols., 1980. Address: 5320 Sendero Dr, Raleigh, NC 27612-1810, U.S.A. Online address: larrychampion@webtv.net

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