13 Facts About Paul Cantor

Paul A Cantor was an American literary and media critic.

Paul Cantor taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he was the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English.

Paul Cantor served on the National Council for the Humanities from 1992 to 1999.

Paul Cantor has given an account of his early years in his intellectual autobiography.

Paul Cantor returned to the Roman plays in Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World.

Paul Cantor published articles on several other Shakespeare plays, including As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Othello, King Lear, Timon of Athens, and The Tempest.

Paul Cantor compares and contrasts the early Roman regime as depicted in Coriolanus and the later Roman regime as depicted in Antony and Cleopatra, pagan values and Christian values, republican regimes and monarchical regimes.

Paul Cantor was perhaps best known in his later years for his writings on popular culture.

Paul Cantor published many articles on films and television shows, most of which are listed on his webpage at the University of Virginia and on his CV.

Paul Cantor combined his interests in literature and culture with an interest in Austrian Economics.

Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture, a collection of essays Paul Cantor edited with Stephen Cox, explored ways of using Austrian economics to understand works of literature.

Paul Cantor presented his work at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and in 1992 he received the Ludwig von Mises Prize for Scholarship in Austrian Economics.

Paul Cantor died on February 25,2022, in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 76.