Brian Vickers (literary scholar) Last updated August 02, 2025 British academic (born 1937)
Brian Vickers
Born (1937-12-13 ) December 13, 1937 (age 87) Occupation University Professor Notable work The Oxford Francis Bacon
Sir Brian William Vickers FBA (born 13 December 1937) is a British academic, now Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich . He is known for his work on the history of rhetoric , Shakespeare , John Ford , and Francis Bacon . He joined the English department at University College London as a visiting professor in 2012.
Works (ed.) The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (1967) Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (1968)The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose (1968)The World of Jonathan Swift: essays for the tercentenary (1968)(ed.) Essential articles for the study of Francis Bacon (1968) (ed.) Seventeenth-century Prose: an anthology (1969) Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (1970)Towards Greek Tragedy: drama, myth, society (1973)(ed.) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (six volumes, 1974–81) Francis Bacon (1978)Frances Yates and the Writing of History (1979)Shakespeare's Hypocrites (1979)Rhetorical and Anti-rhetorical Tropes : on writing the history of elocution (1981)(ed.) Shakespeare: Coriolanus (1981) (ed.) Rhetoric Revalued: papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (1982) Epideictic and Epic in the Renaissance (1983)Epideictic rhetoric in Galileo's "Dialogo" (1983)(ed.) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (1984) Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth: language change in the 17th and 18th centuries (1985)Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: the Mackenzie-Evelyn debate (1986)English Science, Bacon to Newton (1987)In Defence of Rhetoric (1988) Returning to Shakespeare (1989)"Leisure and Idleness in the Renaissance: the ambivalence of otium". Renaissance Studies . 4 (1). Society for Renaissance Studies : 1– 37. 1990. doi :10.1111/j.1477-4658.1990.tb00408.x . eISSN 1477-4658 . Arbeit, Musse, Meditation : Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa (1991)Appropriating Shakespeare: contemporary critical quarrels (1993)(ed.) The history of the reign of King Henry VII and selected works by Francis Bacon (1998) (ed.) The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (1999) (ed.) English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1999) Shakespeare, Co-author: a historical study of the five collaborative plays (2002)(ed.) Francis Bacon, The Major Works: [including New Atlantis and the Essays] (2002) Counterfeiting Shakespeare: evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye (2002)(ed. with William Baker) The Merchant of Venice (2005) Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (2007)The One King Lear (2016)External links
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