Harold Newcomb Hillebrand (1887 – 1953) was a professor of English literature. Harold was the son of

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, a chemist with specialization in geochemistry and Martha May Hillebrand, née Westcott. His brother was an electrical engineer at Palo Alto, California. His grandfather was the botanist

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. He was Head of that Department from 1934-1944. His manuscripts are deposed in the archives of the university of Illinois. His research interest was theatre and play writing. His treatise on the Edmund Kean 1787-1833) counts to the best biography about the actor and provides the first scholarly examination of the evidence on Kean's parentage, birth, and upbringing. He published several articles within ''The Journal of English and Germanic philology''.

Publications

* Writing the one-act play; a manual for beginners, by Harold Newcomb Hillebrand. New York, A. A. Knopf, 1925 digitalized in Ditital Library Hathitrust, Retrieved 2011-08-27. * The child actors; a chapter in Elizabethan stage, 1926 * Edmund Kean, 1933 (reissed: New York: AMS Press, 1966) * edt. Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Boston, D.C. Heath and Co., 1926

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hillebrand, Harold Newcomb University of Illinois faculty English literary critics 1953 deaths 1887 births