Kittredge, George Lyman (1860-1941)

US philologist, Shakespearen scholar, and educator. He was inextricably identified with Harvard University, where he was educated and later taught (1888-1936). At Harvard, ‘Kitty’ inaugurated the study of English romance literature and taught English 2 (1896-1936), his famous course on Shakespeare. He was an international authority on Beowulf, Chaucer, and particularly Shakespeare. His seminal Chaucer and his Poetry (1915) laid the foundation for US Chaucer studies. Kittredge was born in Boston, Massachusetts.