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| Name: |
William Robertson Davies | | Variant Name: |
Robertson Davies | | Birth Date: |
August 28, 1913 | | Death Date: |
December 2, 1995 | | Place of Birth: |
Thamesville, Ontario, Canada | | Place of Death: |
Orangeville, Ontario, Canada | | Nationality: |
Canadian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of William Robertson Davies
1,399 words, approx. 5 pages
 Robertson Davies (1913-1995) enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist, playwright, and novelist, helping to enhance the literary standing of his native Canada. Robertson Davies was a writer of grand ideas and fertile imagination who excelled in a... 
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 Robertson Davies Quotes
16,429 words, approx. 55 pages
Robertson Davies, CC ( 1913-08-28 - 1995-12-02 ) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor. See also: The Salterton Trilogy The Deptford Trilogy The Cornish Trilogy Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Davies, (William) Robertson
123 words, approx. 1 pages(born Aug. 28, 1913, Thamesville, Ont., Can.—died Dec. 2, 1995, Orangeville, Ont.) Canadian novelist and playwright. Educated at the University of Oxford, Davies for many years edited the Peterborough (Ont.) Examiner and taught at the University... summary from source:
 Robertson Davies Information
2,173 words, approx. 7 pages
William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and...
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 The Boston Globe Robertson Davies, the shrewd storyteller
12/05/1995: 667 words, approx. 2 pages As a rule, I never tape-record interviews. But when I went to Toronto in 1988 to profile one of my favorite writers, Robertson Davies, I decided to make an exception, for fear of butchering a particularly sage aphorism or esoteric reference. The device... summary from source:
The Washington Post Robertson Davies' Magic
01/07/1996: 1,306 words, approx. 4 pages ROBERTSON DAVIES Man of Myth By Judith Skelton Grant Viking. 787 pp. $35 THE TERRITORY of wonder that Robertson Davies means to reclaim in his marvelous novels dates to the Middle Ages and an outlook long since discarded by civilized folk: "It was...
 Literary Criticism
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 Robertson Davies
2,697 words, approx. 9 pages
[Gussow is an American journalist, nonfiction writer, and critic. In the following essay, which was based on an interview with Davies, Gussow discusses Davies's career and most recent novel, The Cunning Man.]
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Critical Essay by Judith Skelton Grant
1,716 words, approx. 6 pages
That there is a market in these days of tight publishing budgets for a bibliography of works by and on Robertson Davies, a study of his plays, and a collection of his "Pronouncements" is an index of Davies' current popularity. This popularity is based on his second trilogy—Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders—for in these books Davies has created vivid and distinctive central characters whose eccentric interests have both popular appeal and a philosophic und... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Harris
1,439 words, approx. 5 pages
In the main, the heroes and heroines of Robertson Davies' novels, the characters through whom he chooses to tell his stories, are scholars. They are also pedants. They have many opinions, whereas scholars in the strict sense have only a few, closely related to their disciplines. In the course of their conversations and meditations. Davies' heroes and heroines express their opinions expansively and with wide-ranging references to history and literature. Furthermore, since the habit of forming o...
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