Kevin Scott Crawford (25 April 1970 - 2 December 2013) was a scholar of

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

and

Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt ''Midleton'') was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jac ...

and a founding member of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival.

Biography

Crawford was born in

West Palm Beach West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located immediately to the west of the adjacent Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach, which is situated on a barrier island across the Lake Worth Lag ...

, Florida, and attended

Palm Beach Gardens High School Palm Beach Gardens Community High School is a public magnet high school for grades 9–12 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The school mascot is the Gator. It was built in 1968 as a public high school. The original school was demolished and a new ...

. He received his BA and MA from

Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University (Florida Atlantic or FAU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. The university is a member of the State University System of Florida and has s ...

and his Ph.D. in Renaissance drama from the

University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of ...

's Hudson Strode Program (2005), with Gary Taylor as his dissertation director. He was appointed assistant professor of English at

Reinhardt University Reinhardt University is a private university with its main campus in Waleska, Georgia, and its Cauble School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Jasper, Georgia, Jasper. Over 50 graduate and undergraduate programs are offered on campus and online ...

, in

Waleska, Georgia Waleska ( ) is a city in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. The population was 644 at the 2010 census. History The first white settlement in the Waleska area began in the early 1830s. Among these first pioneer settlers were the Reinhardt, ...

in 2007. In 1990 he was co-founder of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, which produced "Shakespeare by the Sea"; Crawford directed and performed at the festival annually, for 23 years, in productions of plays by Shakespeare and Middleton. He has published in '' Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England'', ''

Shakespeare Bulletin ''Shakespeare Bulletin'' is an academic journal founded in 1982. The journal focuses exclusively on performance studies and scholarly treatment of Shakespearean and early modern drama on stage and screen. Each issue contains original articles as ...

'', and '' Shakespeare Yearbook'', and was one of the editors for the online edition of Middleton's collected works, published by

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. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he received faculty awards for his research and artistic performances. Crawford died, unexpectedly, in December 2013; services were held at Reinhardt and in

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; the Dr. Kevin Crawford Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at Reinhardt. His cause of death was liver failure.

References

External links

Kevin Crawford's page
at Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival {{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Kevin 1970 births 2013 deaths Florida Atlantic University alumni Reinhardt University University of Alabama alumni