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...deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Richard C. Marius (News, Nov. 8). I was his student in two classes (and otherwise, in more ways than I can count), but I am lucky to have met him at all. When I arrived to shop his seminar on Shakespeare's history plays, the room was bursting with senior English concentrators. Thinking that I would never get a seat in the class, I almost left. When Marius arrived, he asked, mixing drawl with happy surprise, "Are you all here to study Shakespeare...
...that most of us were seniors, he chuckled and hollered out, "Well, I cannot send a senior from this Yard who has been denied the chance to study Shakespeare. I'm not sure what to do, but I sure can't do that." So, instead of teaching just one seminar, Richard invited the leftover half of us into his home. Every Monday evening we met to talk and think and write and study Shakespeare. I have never had a better course...
James R. Allison '99, who also took Marius's seminar on Twain and Faulkner, said he credits the development of his writing to Marius...
Andrew L. Zwick '00, who took Marius's freshman seminar on Mark Twain and William Faulkner, said Marius's summers in France figured in the stories he often told in class...
Marius insisted that all students in his freshman seminar have lunch with him in the dining hall, according to Allison, and invited them over to his house for dinner, cooking them apple pie while they discussed their last novel...