Ashley Horace Thorndike

Ashley Horace Thorndike (December 26, 1871 – April 17, 1933) was an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare.

Early life Thorndike was born in Houlton, Maine on December 26, 1871.

Personal life In 1899, Thorndike married Annette Marian Lowell of Hatfield, Massachusetts.

After collapsing at Madison Avenue and 41st Street while on his way home from a dinner in the Fraternity Clubs Building two blocks away, he died in a cab en route to Bellevue Hospital on April 17, 1933. His widow lived until 1959.

Selected publications Books The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakespere (1901) The Elements of Shakespeare and Composition (1905) Tragedy (1908) with William Allan Neilson: The Facts about Shakespeare (1913); 1923 reprint Shakespeare's Theatre (1916) Literature in a Changing World (1920) English Comedy (1929); 1965 edition

Articles "The Relations of Hamlet to Contemporary Revenge Plays," PMLA, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1902), pp. 125-220. "Shakespeare in America," The Shakespeare Association Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 2 (July, 1928), pp. 1-8.