Sir Edmund Chambers

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866–1954) was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar, best known for his seminal four-volume work The Elizabethan Stage (1923), which remains a standard reference on Elizabethan theatre history. Born in West Ilsley, Berkshire, he worked in the Board of Education, rising to second secretary before retiring in 1926, and served as the first president of the Malone Society. His other notable works include The Mediaeval Stage (1903), William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (1930), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1938), the latter winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Litencyc