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Mar 28, 1928 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Died on 13 Feb 2012 (aged 83)
American academic
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About Daniel C. Gerould
- Daniel Charles Gerould (March 28, 1928 – February 13, 2012) was the Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of Publications of the Martin E.
- Segal Theatre Center.
- A scholar, teacher, translator, editor, and playwright, Gerould was a specialist in US melodrama, Central and Eastern European theatre of the twentieth century, and fin-de-siècle European avant-garde performance.
- Gerould was one of the world’s most recognized “Witkacologists,” a leading scholar and translator of the work of Polish playwright, novelist, painter, and philosopher Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ("Witkacy").
- Gerould was best known for introducing English-language audiences to the writings of Witkiewicz through such work as Stanislaw I.
- Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents (PAJ Publications 1980), Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer (University of Washington Press, 1981), The Witkiewicz Reader (Northwestern University Press, 1992), and his original translations of most of Witkiewicz’s plays.
