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Samuel A. (Samuel Aaron) Tannenbaum
d. 1948
A tireless literary detective, he devoted his career to Shakespeare, Renaissance handwriting, and the paper trails that surround great writers. His books are full of the close looking and patient scholarship that helped shape early 20th-century Shakespeare studies.
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The Assassination of Christopher Marlowe (A New View)
by Samuel A. (Samuel Aaron) Tannenbaum
About the author
Born in 1874, Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum was an American literary scholar, bibliographer, and palaeographer of Hungarian origin. He is best known for his work on William Shakespeare and Shakespeare's contemporaries, and for bringing a meticulous, document-based approach to questions of authorship, biography, and textual history.
Tannenbaum wrote widely on Elizabethan and Renaissance literature. His published work includes studies such as The Handwriting of the Renaissance, Shakesperian Scraps and Other Elizabethan Fragments, and bibliographies and source studies connected with Shakespearean scholarship. The range of his work shows a scholar deeply interested not just in famous texts, but in manuscripts, handwriting, historical records, and the small details that can change how literature is understood.
He died in 1948. Today, he is remembered as one of those energetic scholars who helped build the reference tools and documentary groundwork that later students of Shakespeare still rely on.