William Ingram (born 1930) is an American academic who was Professor of Literature Emeritus at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. He is known for his work on early modern drama and performance.

Life and career

Ingram was born in 1930. He earned the PhD at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1966. Ingram is the author of ''The Business of Playing: The Beginnings of the Adult Professional Theater'' and ''A London Life in the Brazen Age: Francis Langley 1548-1602'', a biography of the Elizabethan playhouse owner

Francis Langley Francis Langley (1548–1602) was a theatre builder and theatrical producer in Elizabethan era London. After James Burbage and Philip Henslowe, Langley was the third significant entrepreneurial figure active at the height of the development of En ...

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