Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Virginia 1957
  • M.A., University of Virginia 1949
  • B.A., Yale University 1947
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1967 - 1993
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1964 - 1967
  • Associate Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1962 - 1964
  • Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1957 - 1962
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellow. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1977
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Williams, George Walton. “Early Exits: An Open Letter to Editors.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2000): 205–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902133.
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    • Williams, G. W. “Five-act structure and the choruses in 'Henry V' + Shakespeare.” Cahiers Elisabethains, no. 50 (October 1996): 11.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “TIME FOR SUCH A WORD VERBAL ECHOING IN MACBETH.” Shakespeare Survey  an Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, Vol 47 47 (1994): 153–59.
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    • Riess, Amy J., and George Walton Williams. “"Tragical Mirth": From Romeo to Dream.” Shakespeare Quarterly 43, no. 2 (1992): 214–214. https://doi.org/10.2307/2870882.
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    • Williams, G. W. “Shakbspbare's king lear 1. I. 181.” Environment 34, no. 2 (January 1, 1992): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1975.9940688.6.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “KATE AND PETRUCHIO - STRENGTH AND LOVE + THE 'TAMING OF THE SHREW'.” English Language Notes 29, no. 1 (September 1991): 18–24.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “THE MANIFOLD MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.” Milton Quarterly 24, no. 2 (May 1990): 82–82.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “SHAKESPEARE,WILLIAM - THE COMPLETE WORKS - WELLS,S, TAYLOR,G, JOWETT,J, MONTGOMERY,W.” Cahiers Elisabethains, no. 35 (April 1989): 103–17.
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    • Williams, George Walton, and Michael O’Brien. “A Character of Hugh Legare.” American Literature 58, no. 4 (December 1986): 633–633. https://doi.org/10.2307/2926454.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “PETITIONARY PRAYER IN 'KING LEAR' + SHAKESPEARE.” South Atlantic Quarterly 85, no. 4 (1986): 360–73.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “MURDER UNDER TRUST - THE TOPICAL 'MACBETH' AND OTHER JACOBEAN MATTERS - CLARK,AM.” South Atlantic Quarterly 83, no. 3 (1984): 361–62.
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    • Williams, G. W. “Shakespeare's metaphors of health: food, sport, and life-preserving rest.” The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14, no. 2 (January 1984): 187–202.
    • Williams, George Walton. “Textual Studies,” December 15, 1983, 181–96. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521256364.019.
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    • ANTONI, B., and G. W. WILLIAMS. “GADSHILL QUESTION IN '1 HENRY IV'.” Cahiers Elisabethains, no. 23 (1983): 99–103.
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    • Williams, George Walton. “"Macbeth": King James's Play.” South Atlantic Review 47, no. 2 (May 1982): 12–12. https://doi.org/10.2307/3199207.
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    • Hawkins, Harriett. “Critical Studies,” February 4, 1982, 161–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521232406.016.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “DONNE,JOHN - LIFE, MIND AND ART - CAREY,JC.” South Atlantic Quarterly 81, no. 4 (1982): 471–72.
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    • Williams, George Walton. “Textual Studies,” January 29, 1981, 205–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol052123249x.018.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “CRASHAW EPIGRAMS ON THE YOUNG CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE.” Seventeenth Century News 39, no. 1 (1981): 8–9.
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    • Williams, George Walton. “R. Chris HasselJr. , Renaissance Drama and the English Church Year. Lincoln-London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979, ix+215 pp. $15.” Renaissance Quarterly 33, no. 3 (1980): 468–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/2860937.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “SHAKESPEARE - ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY - WELLS,S.” South Atlantic Quarterly 78, no. 2 (1979): 271–72.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “TEXTUAL STUDIES + THE YEARS CONTRIBUTIONS TO SHAKESPEARIAN STUDY.” Shakespeare Survey, no. 32 (1979): 237–47.
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    • Williams, George Walton. “Second Thoughts on Falstaff's Name.” Shakespeare Quarterly 30, no. 1 (January 1, 1979): 82–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/2869663.
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    • WILLIAMS, G. W. “YEARS CONTRIBUTIONS TO SHAKESPEARIAN STUDY .3. TEXTUAL STUDIES.” Shakespeare Survey, no. 31 (1978): 191–98.
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    • Williams, George Walton, and Agnes Latham. “A Competent New Arden Edition.” Shakespeare Quarterly 29, no. 1 (1978): 116–116. https://doi.org/10.2307/2869188.
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    • Williams, George Walton. “Second Thoughts On Lear's "Good Block".” Shakespeare Quarterly 29, no. 3 (1978): 421–421. https://doi.org/10.2307/2869153.
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  • Book Sections

    • Williams, G. W. “"With a little shuffling".” In “Fanned and Winnowed Opinions”: Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins, 151–59, 2021.
    • Williams, G. W. “‘Time for such a word’: Verbal echoing in Macbeth.” In Shakespeare and Language, 240–50, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617379.015.
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