Ewbank, Inga Stina
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- Her Their proper sphere, 1966
- Strindberg, August. Three chamber plays, 1997:t.p. (Inga-Stina Ewbank) p. 4 of cover (prof. of Engl. lit., Sch. of English, Univ. of Leeds; b. and educ. in Sweden; has taught at universities in UK and US; has written on Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as Scand. drama and theatre; her translations of plays have been performed by Nat. Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Co., and Peter Hall Co.)
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Inga-Stina Ewbank SBS (13 June 1932 – 7 June 2004) was a Swedish-born academic and educator in Great Britain, Munich, Hong Kong and the United States, as well as an author and translator. She is believed to have been to date the only holder of an English chair of English Literature to have spoken no English until the age of 19 (in her case, having spoken only Swedish until that time).
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