THE THESPIAN MIRROR: SHAKESPEARE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL

Providence: Brown University. 1953. First edition. This copy has been inscribed ["For Dr. Tom Perry, with gratitude,"] and signed by the author on the front free end paper. This copy has also been inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. An undated "Season's Greetings card [with the printed names of Gale and Barbara Noyes, and with cover artwork by M. F. Brown] from the author is laid in. 200 pages, illustrated, index. Near Fine copy [save for a paper clip impression to the fore-edge of the first two leaves] in age-toned VG+ Dust Wrapper save for several edge tears [one is 1.5" long, the others from 1/2" to 1" long].; Signed by Author .
(Robert) Gale Noyes (1898-1961), professor of English. was born in Norwich, Connecticut on September 1, 1898. After graduation from Norwich Free Academy he entered Brown and received both the bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in 1921. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard and became an assistant professor there before he returned to Brown in 1938 as associate professor of English. He served in both World Wars. In the first, he was in the Coast Guard. In the second, he was inducted the day before his 44th birthday (the cutoff point for the draft) and engaged in intelligence and public relations work with the rank of Captain. He was promoted to full professor in 1951. He was an authority on Restoration drama and eighteenth-century fiction. He published Ben Jonson on the English Stage, 1660-1776 in 1935, The Thespian Mirror in 1953, and The Neglected Muse in 1958. He was ill during the academic year 1960-61 and died in Providence on March 25. 1961. The Brown Daily Herald noted, "His classes were always full, not only with English majors but also with students representing all other disciplines. They took his course to gain an insight into life by enjoying his erudition, his sense of humor, and his vast humanity."- encylopedia Brunoniana