Kevin Crawford (scholar)

For English flautist, see Kevin Crawford.

Kevin Scott Crawford (25 April 1970 - 2 December 2013) was a scholar of William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton and a founding member of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival.

Kevin Crawford
Reinhardt University Associate Professor of English
Born	(1970-04-25)25 April 1970 West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Died	2 December 2013(2013-12-02) (aged 43)
Occupation	Scholar
Known for	Founding member of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival
Academic background
Education	Florida Atlantic University University of Alabama
Academic work
Discipline	Scholar of William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton

Biography

Crawford was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and attended Palm Beach Gardens High School. He received his BA and MA from Florida Atlantic University and his Ph.D. in Renaissance drama from the University of Alabama's Hudson Strode Program (2005), with Gary Taylor as his dissertation director.^[1] He was appointed assistant professor of English at Reinhardt University, in Waleska, Georgia in 2007. In 1990 he was co-founder of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival,^[2] which produced "Shakespeare by the Sea";^[3] Crawford directed and performed at the festival annually, for 23 years,^[4] in productions of plays by Shakespeare and Middleton.^[5]

He has published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England,^[6] Shakespeare Bulletin, and Shakespeare Yearbook, and was one of the editors for the online edition of Middleton's collected works, published by Oxford UP.^[7] In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he received faculty awards for his research and artistic performances.^[8][9][10]

Crawford died, unexpectedly, in December 2013;^[11] services were held at Reinhardt and in Stratford-upon-Avon; the Dr. Kevin Crawford Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at Reinhardt.^[2] His cause of death was liver failure.^[12]

References

1. "Kevin Crawford". Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
2. "Crawford, Kevin Scott". Cherokee Tribune. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
3. Saunders, Carol (5 June 2011). "The Tempest storms into Carlin Park for Shakespeare By the Sea XXI". Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
4. Hagwood, Rod Stafford (9 June 2014). "Shakespeare by the Sea stages Much Ado About Nothing". Southflorida.com. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
5. Middleton, Thomas (2010). Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Oxford UP. p. 835. ISBN 9780199580538.
6. Walter, Melissa (2008). "Dramatic Bodies and Novellesque Spaces in Jacobean Tragedy and Tragicomedy". In Robert Henke, Eric Nicholson (ed.). Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. Ashgate. pp. 63–80. ISBN 9780754662815.
7. "Biography for: Kevin Crawford". ISE Chronicle. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
8. "Reinhardt Honors Faculty Dedication with Presentation of Four Awards". www.reinhardt.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-01-07.
9. "Faculty Members Honored for Exceptional Work". www.reinhardt.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12.
10. "Reinhardt Honors Faculty Dedication with Presentation of Five Awards". www.reinhardt.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
11. Whigham II, Julius (2 December 2013). "Former Palm Beach Gardens actor who helped found Palm Beach dies". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
12. Simmons, Scott (17 April 2014). "Forget tragedy; Shakespeare fest aims for laughs - Palm Beach Florida Weekly". Palm Beach Florida Weekly. Retrieved 17 January 2024.

External links

• Kevin Crawford's page at Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival