1. Robertson Davies - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Davies is one of the authors mentioned in the Moxy Früvous song My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors . The line Who needs a shave? He s Robertson Davies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies

Robertson Davies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search William Robertson Davies Robertson Davies in 1984 Born 28 August 1913 Thamesville, Ontario, Canada Died 2 December 1995 Orangeville, Ontario, Canada Occupation Journalist, playwright, professor, critic, novelist Nationality Canadian Genres novels, plays, essays and reviews William Robertson Davies CC FRSC FRSL (born August 28 , at Thamesville Ontario , and died December 2 at Orangeville , Ontario) was a Canadian novelist playwright critic ... journalist , and professor . He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors , and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College , a graduate college at the University of Toronto Contents Biography Early life Middle years The 1960s ... edit Biography edit Early life Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and language. His father, Senator William Rupert Davies , was a newspaperman, and both his parents were voracious readers . He, in turn, read everything he could. He also participated in

2. Penguin Reading Guides | Fifth Business | Robertson Davies Robertson Davies was born in 1913 in Thamesville, a village of 800 in rural Ontario that would later be portrayed as the fictional Deptford. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/fifth_business.html

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3. Robertson Davies Robertson Davies. 1984. Appointed in 1972 for his many contributions to literature, theatre and journalism. He is best known for his novels, http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galcompad/davies.html

Companions of the Order of Canada Gallery A-D Robertson Davies Appointed in 1972 for his many contributions to literature, theatre and journalism. He is best known for his novels, notably the Deptford trilogy. Back to Gallery of the Companions of the Order of Canada, A-D Back to Home Page

4. Robertson Davies -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Robertson Davies novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029499/Robertson-Davies

document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: Robertson Davies Canadian author in full William Robertson Davies Main born Aug. 28, 1913, Thamesville, Ont., Can. died Dec. 2, 1995, Orangeville, Ont. novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and prudery. Educated in England at the University of Oxford, Davies had training in acting, directing, and stage management as a member of the Old Vic Repertory Company. He edited the Peterborough Examiner Eros at Breakfast (1949) and (1950), which are satires on Canadian standards and values. He also published collections of humorous essays, such as The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice (1954), and A Mixture of Frailties (1958), all of which are comedies of manners set in a provincial Canadian university town. Even better known are the novels of the Deptford trilogy, consisting of Fifth Business The Manticore (1972), and

5. Robertson Davies Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville Ontario in 1913 and passed away in Orangeville Ontario in 1995. He is considered to be one of Canada s most http://www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/pages/authors/davies.htm

Made in Canada is the proud recipient of the 2000 Aurora Award for Fan Achievement: Other! Associated with Chapters.Indigo.ca . and Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find Robertson Davies Available at Chapters Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville Ontario in 1913 and passed away in Orangeville Ontario in 1995. He is considered to be one of Canada's most respected authors. Although his work is mostly mainstream he is listed here because many of his stories have touched on the fantastic. Interesting Links Biography Website ISFDb bibliography Locus Index : Books Stories Canadian Encyclopedia entry Please feel free to email me with any comments or questions at canadian_sf@hotmail.com Home Actors Authors ... Contributors Search Made In Canada Site designed, developed and maintained by Don Bassie at canadian_sf@hotmail.com For those interested, here is my Bio Last updated October 07, 2000

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8. Robertson Davies - Wikiquote Famous author (and former newspaperman) Robertson Davies recently gave a reading from his latest novel to a packed library theatre in Calgary. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies

Robertson Davies From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. Robertson Davies CC ) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor. See also: The Salterton Trilogy The Deptford Trilogy The Cornish Trilogy Contents Sourced The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947) The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949) Shakespeare over the Port (1960) ... edit Sourced Applause we crave, from scorn we take defence But have no armour 'gainst indifference. Our fate lies in your hands, to you we pray For an indulgent hearing of our play Laugh if you can, or failing that, give vent In hissing fury to your discontent; Applause we crave, from scorn we take defence But have no armour 'gainst indifference. A Prologue (1939) to Oliver Goldsmith 's The Good Natur'd Man William Prynne 's Histrio-Matrix, the Player's Scourge or Actor's Tragedie (1632), a fat book of more than a thousand pages, which forms an admirable compilation of all the Puritan arguments against the theatre. The work is a classic of abuse and a monument to the misplaced scholarship and zeal of its author. Unluckily for Prynne he referred to women actors as 'notorious whores' meaning a group of French actresses who had appeared at Blackfriars in 1629; the reference was taken to apply to Queen Henrietta Maria and her ladies who were about to perform a pastoral at Whitehall. She made a

9. Robertson Davies - Wikipedia, Wolna Encyklopedia Robertson Davies (urodzony 28 sierpnia 1913, zmar 2 grudnia 1995 w Toronto) kanadyjski pisarz, krytyk literacki, dziennikarz i profesor Uniwersytetu http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies

Robertson Davies Z Wikipedii Skocz do: nawigacji szukaj Robertson Davies (urodzony 28 sierpnia , zmarł 2 grudnia w Toronto ) - kanadyjski pisarz, krytyk literacki, dziennikarz i profesor Uniwersytetu Toronto Urodził się w Thamesville , w kanadyjskiej prowincji Ontario Spis treści Bibliografia Powieści Eseje Nowele ... edytuj Bibliografia edytuj Powieści The Salterton Trilogy Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice A Mixture of Frailties The Deptford Trilogy Fifth Business PiÄ ta osoba dramatu Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy The Manticore Mantykora Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy World of Wonders Świat czar³w Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy The Cornish Trilogy The Rebel Angels Zbuntowane anioły Rebis What's Bred in the Bone Czym skorupka... Rebis The Lyre of Orpheus Lira Orfeusza Rebis The "Toronto Trilogy" (ostatnia, niedokończona trylogia) Murther and Walking Spirits The Cunning Man edytuj Eseje The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks ) (poÅ‚Ä czenie trzech powyższych ksiÄ Å¼ek, z dodatkami autora) Krytyka literacka Shakespeare's Boy Actors Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course Renown at Stratford ) (z Tyrone Guthrie Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded ) (z Tyrone Guthrie Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd ) (z Tyrone Guthrie A Voice From the Attic A Feast of Stephen Stephen Leacock One Half of Robertson Davies The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies Well-Tempered Critic The Mirror of Nature The Merry Heart Happy Alchemy ) (edytor Jennifer Surridge i Brenda Davies edytuj Nowele

10. Robertson Davies Robertson Davies. Robertson Davies AKA William Robertson Davies. Born 28Aug-1913 Birthplace Thamesville, Ontario, Canada Died 3-Dec-1995 http://www.nndb.com/people/083/000044948/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Robertson Davies AKA William Robertson Davies Born: 28-Aug Birthplace: Thamesville, Ontario, Canada Died: 3-Dec Location of death: Orangeville, Ontario, Canada Cause of death: Heart Failure Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: Canada Executive summary: Fifth Business Father: William Rupert Davies (newspaper owner and editor) Wife: Brenda Newbold (theatre stage manager, m. Feb-1940) High School: Upper Canada College (1928-31) University: Queen's University Kingston (studied 1932-35) University: B Lit, Balliol College, Oxford University (started 1931) Professor: Trinity College, University of Toronto (1960-81) Lorne Pierce Medal Welsh Ancestry Author of books: The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks , essays) The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks , essays) Tempest-Tost , novel) Leaven of Malice , novel) A Mixture of Frailties , novel) A Voice From the Attic , essays) Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack , essays) Fifth Business , novel) The Manticore , novel) World of Wonders , novel) The Rebel Angels , novel) High Spirits , short stories) What's Bred in the Bone , novel) The Lyre of Orpheus , novel) Murther and Walking Spirits , novel) The Cunning Man , novel) Do you know something we don't?

11. Robertson Davies | Find Articles At BNET.com William Robertson davies robertson Davies (19131995) enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist, playwright, and novelist, helping to enhance. http://findarticles.com/p/search?qt=Robertson Davies&qf=free

12. Robertson Davies - Book Lust Robertson davies robertson Davies died in 1995. I remember being disappointed at the time that I d never have an opportunity to read another new novel by http://booklust.wetpaint.com/page/Robertson Davies

A Wetpaint Wiki Sign in to Wetpaint Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy! Robertson Davies Davies was a prolific writer that wrote in a number of different genres: Essays - The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks Plays - there are quite a few listed on Wikipedia Short Stories - High Spirits The Deptford Trilogy - Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders The Cornish Trilogy Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man - may or may not have been the unfinished parts of another trilogy. He also wrote The Salterton Trilogy. This was his earliest trilogy and I found it disappointing after reading his later works. "She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save by the frequent and plentiful acquisition of books. This passion is more common, and more powerful, than most people suppose. Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command." Robertson Davies (1913-1995) Latest page update: made by sreymer Mar 2 2007, 4:51 PM EST

13. THE REBEL ANGELS By Robertson Davies Robertson Davies’ madcap, humorous, provocative novel centered in academic in Toronto is not only a fabulous read, but sent me scurrying to the internet to http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/davies-angels.html

THE REBEL ANGELS By Robertson Davies 320 pages New York: Penguin Books, 1983. ISBN # 0-14-006271-8 Comments of Bob Corbett October 2002 Since I have several reviews of Davies' work I have set up a page to collect my comments and other links to Davies' work Robertson Davies’ madcap, humorous, provocative novel centered in academic in Toronto is not only a fabulous read, but sent me scurrying to the internet to read more about the historical figures of Rabelais and Paracelsus who enter into the heart of this contemporary story. “The story ” that’s not quite right. There are least two different stories to tell, though they interface and interlace. The more typical story line which drives events centers on several minor figures, the key one being Francis Cornish, never appears live, but his death and large bequest to the College of St. John and the Holy Ghost is the frame of the novel. Two quite wicked fellows – John Parlabane and Urquhart McVarish (now that’s quite a name!) conspire in ways that move the plot. However, the most interesting parts of the novel for me concern the characters of two university professors, Clement Hollier and Simon Darcourt, their stunningly beautiful and astonishingly bright student, Maria Theotoky, and her fascinating gypsy mother and finally, millionaire financier nephew of the dead Francis Cornish, Arthur Cornish.

14. Robertson Davies - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times A biography and related information about Robertson Davies. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/718973/Robertson-Davies

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15. McClelland.com | Author Spotlight: Robertson Davies Robertson Davies was born and raised in Ontario and was educated at a variety of schools, Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6514

16. Robertson Davies Quotes - The Quotations Page robertson davies; A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in robertson davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947 http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Robertson_Davies/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Robertson Davies Showing quotations 1 to 14 of 14 total There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies - More quotations on: [ Books Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson Davies Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies - More quotations on: [ Happiness Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

17. Centre For Language And Literature - Canadian Writers - Robertson Davies - Athab William robertson davies was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario to a Welsh father and a strict Presbyterian mother. His father, sent to Canada when his http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/rdavies.html

Athabasca University. Canada's Open University. Navigation Skip Navigation Language and Literature Contact Faculty ... English Language Studies Robertson Davies U.K. His initial passion was for the theatre and he pursued life as an actor in London. In 1940 Davies married Brenda Matthews who he met at Oxford. In the same year the couple returned to Canada where Davies took the position of literary editor of Saturday Night Robertson Davies worked in his early career to increase the quality and profile of Canadian drama. He started the Dominion Drama Festival and was an early member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival board. In 1948, he produced his first commercially successful play, Fortune, My Foe . The play involves the questions surrounding Canadian culture and arts, from the point of view of a newly arrived immigrant, a young Canadian and an aging Englishman teacher. He wrote several plays during his career, but after a theatrical disaster in New York in 1960 with Love and Libel, or The Ogre of the Provincial World , Davies chose to instead focus on his novels.

18. INTERVIEW WITH ROBERTSON DAVIES From Raymond H. Thompson s Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature . http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/intrvws/davies.htm

Return to the Contents Page of Thompson's Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature INTERVIEW WITH ROBERTSON DAVIES by RAYMOND H. THOMPSON TORONTO 9 JUNE 1992 Every time I passed through Toronto, I seemed fated to miss Robertson Davies whose commitments continue to keep him busy, even in so-called retirement. Finally, I gave up trying to fit him into my travel plans and asked for a time of his choosing. Thus came about our meeting on a fine June morning. I was shown to his office in Massey College of the University of Toronto, where he is a Professor Emeritus as well as one of Canada's foremost novelists, and he talked most genially about his Cornish trilogy. There are no signs of Arthurian influence in the first novel, but references start to appear in What's Bred in the Bone (Toronto: Macmillan; New York: Viking Penguin, 1985), and the characters of The Lyre of Orpheus (Toronto: Macmillan; New York: Viking Penguin; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988) find themselves engaged, not only in mounting a performance of a long-lost Arthurian opera, but also in personally reenacting the Arthurian triangle in their own lives. The situation offers ample opportunity for the irony that Davies so richly relishes, and he was amused to hear that some scholars were even speculating whether the long-lost Arthurian opera (by E. T. A. Hoffmann) actually exists. It does not as far as he knows, but he would be the first to appreciate the irony were it ever to turn up! RT: What attracted you to Arthurian legend as an ingredient in both

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Robertson Davies (1913-1995) born in Thamesville , Ontario died in Orangeville , Ontario on Dec. 2, 1995 son of Senator William Rupert Davies educated at Queen's University , Ontario and Balliol College, Oxford joined the Old Vic Repertory Company in 1938, later taught drama at the Old Vic Theater School married Brenda Mathews after returning to Canada, became literary editor of Saturday Night Magazine became editor of the Peterborough Examiner in 1960 he began teaching literature at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and continued until 1981 in 1961 became Master of Massey College , and Professor of English, University of Toronto Novels: Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice (1954) received the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour A Mixture of Frailties Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business The Manticore (1972) received the Governor General's Award World of Wonders Cornish Trilogy: Rebel Angels What's Bred in the Bone The Lyre of Orpheus Others: High Spirits Murther and Walking Spirits The Cunning Man Humorous Essays: The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack Plays: Overlaid Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays Fortune, My Foe

20. Quotes From Robertson Davies, Page 1 Of 15 robertson davies. TempestTost. In her latest speech she had scored a double; robertson davies. Tempest-Tost. Students today are a pretty solemn lot. http://www.amk.ca/quotations/robertson-davies/

Home Quotations Quotes from Robertson Davies, page 1 of 15 Search amk.ca This page last modified: 30 Sep 2006 Other Formats: ASCII Fortune XML Other Collections: Index Comics Cryptography Commonplace book ... Tom Baker "Wet", said he. Classics was his subject, and he sometimes affected a classical simplicity in social conversation. Robertson Davies Tempest-Tost "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. Robertson Davies Tempest-Tost But Freddy was not in a mood to be satisfied with herself, and as she put on her pyjamas and jumped into bed she wondered what Daddy would say if she suggested that in a year or two she should become a postulant in an Anglican nunnery. Somewhat illogically she broke off this train of reflection to read the large illustrated Rabelais which she had abstracted from the library. She found it very good fun, and made a mental list of several abusive terms to use in her next quarrel with Griselda. Robertson Davies Tempest-Tost In her latest speech she had scored a double; she had condemned Griselda's legs because they were beautiful, and sneered at poor Pearl Vambrace's because they were not. Mrs Bridgetower had indeed benefited from higher education.

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