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Name
  
Roland Frye


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Died
  
January 13, 2005, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, United States

Education
  
Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
The Renaissance Hamlet, Shakespeare, Is God a Creationist?, Shakespeare's Life and Times, Milton's imagery and the vi

Roland Mushat Frye (July 3, 1921 – January 13, 2005) was an American English literature scholar and theologian.

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Frye was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1943 he interrupted his studies to enlist in the United States Army and fought at the Battle of the Bulge, winning a Bronze Star. Frye also fought at the Battle of Remagen.

After the war, Frye taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and joined Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. as a research professor in residence. He returned to teaching in 1965, accepting a professorship at Penn. He was Schelling Professor of English Literature University of Pennsylvania from 1965 until his retirement in 1983. In 1978, he co-founded the Center of Theological Inquiry, an independent institution sponsored by the Princeton Theological Seminary.

Frye was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award by the American Philosophical Society. He was a Presbyterian elder.

References

Roland Frye Wikipedia


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