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Bridget Gellert Lyons
Born
Bridget Juliette Gellert

August 28, 1932
Prague, Czechoslovakia
DiedMay 8, 2023 (age 90)
United States
OccupationsLiterary scholar, college professor
Notable workVoices of Melancholy (1971)
RelativesJulius Petschek (grandfather)

Bridget Juliette Gellert Lyons (August 28, 1932 – May 8, 2023) was a Czech-born American Shakespeare scholar and college professor. She was a professor at Rutgers University from 1965 to 2003. At Rutgers, she was chair of the English department, and dean of humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Early life and education

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Gellert was born in Prague, the daughter of Leopold R. Gellert and Marianne (Mitzi) Petschek-Gellert.[1] Her family fled Europe in the 1930s, and she lived in England and Cuba as a girl, before moving to Rye, New York, where her mother died in 1950.[2] Her father was an investment banker.[3] Her maternal grandfather, Julius Petschek, was a wealthy industrialist from a prominent Jewish family in Prague.[4][5] She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1954, and earned a master's degree at the University of Oxford in 1956. She completed doctoral studies at Columbia University in 1967.[6] Her dissertation was titled "Three Literary Treatments of Melancholy: Marston, Shakespeare and Burton".[7]

Career

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Gellert Lyons studied English Renaissance literature, and taught at Rutgers University from 1965 until 2003. Her undergraduate course on Shakespeare enrolled hundreds of students every year. She was chair of the English department, director of graduate studies, and dean of humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences. She was editor of the journal Renaissance Quarterly.[6][8] Gellert Lyons retired from Rutgers in 2003, and endowed a scholarship there with her husband in 2012, for graduate students in Renaissance studies.[6][8]

Publications

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  • "The Melancholy of Moor-Ditch: A Gloss of 1 Henry IV, I. ii. 87-88" (1967)[9]
  • "The Iconography of Melancholy in the Graveyard Scene of 'Hamlet'" (1970)[10]
  • Voices of Melancholy: Studies in Literary Treatments of Melancholy in Renaissance England (1971)[11]
  • "The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear" (1974)[12]
  • "The Iconography of Ophelia" (1977)[13]
  • "'Kings Games': Stage Imagery and Political Symbolism in Richard III" (1978)[14]
  • Chimes at Midnight (1988)[15]
  • Reading in an Age of Theory (1997, editor)[16]

Personal life

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Gellert married fellow professor Robert B. Lyons in 1971. She died in 2023, at the age of 90.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Mrs. Leopold R. Gellert". The New York Times. July 11, 1950. p. 32. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  2. ^ "Mrs. Gellert Left $40,000". The Daily Item. 1950-07-14. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-10-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Leopold R. Gellert, 72, Dies; An Investment Banker Here". The New York Times. February 26, 1969. p. 47. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  4. ^ "Prague villa walk reveals the fascinating history of a First Republic dynasty". Expats CZ. 2021-11-18. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  5. ^ Shumsky, Dmitry. "Petschek Family". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  6. ^ a b c "Bridget Lyons". The New York Times, via Legacy.com. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  7. ^ Gellert, Bridget Juliette. "Three Literary Treatments of Melancholy: Marston, Shakespeare and Burton: New York, 1967." PhD diss., 1972.
  8. ^ a b c McHugh, Margaret (August 15, 2023). "English Professor Bridget Gellert Lyons Remembered for Her Legacy as a Consummate Teacher". Rutgers University. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  9. ^ Gellert, Bridget (1967-01-01). "The Melancholy of Moor-Ditch: A Gloss of 1 Henry IV, I. ii. 87-88". Shakespeare Quarterly. 18 (1): 70–71. doi:10.2307/2868066. ISSN 0037-3222.
  10. ^ Gellert, Bridget (1970). "The Iconography of Melancholy in the Graveyard Scene of "Hamlet"". Studies in Philology. 67 (1): 57–66. ISSN 0039-3738.
  11. ^ Lyons, Bridget Gellert (1971). Voices of Melancholy: Studies in Literary Treatments of Melancholy in Renaissance England. Barnes & Noble. ISBN 978-0-389-04168-9.
  12. ^ Lyon, Bridget Gellert (1974-12-15), Colie, Rosalie; Flahiff, F.T. (eds.), "Two. The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear", Some Facets of King Lear: Essays in Prismatic Criticism, University of Toronto Press, pp. 23–38, doi:10.3138/9781442652996-003, ISBN 978-1-4426-5299-6, retrieved 2025-10-08
  13. ^ Lyons, Bridget Gellert (1977). "The Iconography of Ophelia". ELH. 44 (1): 60–74. doi:10.2307/2872526. ISSN 0013-8304.
  14. ^ Lyons, Bridget Gellert (1978). ""Kings Games": Stage Imagery and Political Symbolism in "Richard III"". Criticism. 20 (1): 17–30. ISSN 0011-1589.
  15. ^ Lyons, Bridget Gellert, ed. (1988). Chimes at midnight. Rutgers films in print. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1339-3.
  16. ^ Lyons, Bridget Gellert, ed. (1997). Reading in an age of theory. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2430-6.