Jacob Isaacs

Jacob Isaacs was born in London on 6 December 1896.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49180 Isaacs, Jacob (1896–1973).] William Baker, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2017. {{subscription required}}

Isaacs was a lecturer at King's College London from 1928 to 1942. He then moved to Palestine, where he served as the first Montefiore Professor of English in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1942 to 1945. Isaacs returned to England in 1945 and was Chair of English Language and Literature at Queen Mary College, University of London from 1952 to 1964.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Jacob Issac's biography|url=http://archives-catalogue.library.qmul.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=JI&pos=1|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-13|website=Catalog of the Queen Mary Archives}} In 1953 he gave the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture.{{cite web|title=Shakespeare Lectures|website=The British Academy|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/listings/shakespeare-lectures/}} He was the author of more than thirty books and articles on the subject of English literature.

Isaacs died in Lewisham Hospital on 12 May 1973. His papers are held at the Queen Mary Archives.[http://library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/news/catalogue-of-the-archives-of-jacob-isaacs-now-available.html Catalogue of the Archives of Jacob Isaacs Now Available.] Queen Mary University of London, 7 June 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2017.

• Production and Stage-Management at the Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare Association, 1935.
• Coleridge's Critical Terminology. English Association, 1936.
• The Background of Modern Poetry, delivered in the B.B.C., 3rd programme, by J. Isaacs. 1951.
• Shakespeare's Earliest Years in the Theatre: Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy. 1953.{{cite journal|title=brief mention of Shakespeare's Earliest Years in the Theatre|journal=Shakespeare Quarterly|volume=8|issue=3|year=1957|pages=399|issn=0037-3222|doi=10.2307/2867008|jstor=2867008 }}

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