Margreta de Grazia (born 1946), Emerita Professor of English and the Humanities at the

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, is a scholar of Early Modern studies.

Education

De Grazia received her BA from

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and her MA and PhD from Princeton University in English Renaissance studies.

Career and awards

De Grazia taught at the

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and at

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, before joining the faculty of the

in 1983. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center. The

Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 800 Fellows, elect ...

elected her as a Fellow in 2021.

Selected works

* * Ed. with Maureen Quilligan and Peter Stallybrass, ''Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture''. Cambridge. 1996. ISBN 0521455898 * Ed. with Stanley Wells, ''Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare''. Cambridge. 2001. ISBN 9781139000109 * * Ed. with Stanley Wells, ''New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare''. Cambridge. 2010. ISBN * *

References

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