Ashley Horace Thorndike (December 26, 1871 – April 17, 1933) was an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare.
[1] At Columbia, he taught and wrote several notable textbooks, including Facts about Shakespeare (as coauthor), Tragedy, and English Comedy.
He introduced the term "revenge tragedy" in 1900 to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras.
[1] They lived at 4643 Waldo Avenue in Riverdale, Bronx, where he had the New York architectural firm of Davis, McGrath & Kiessling design his home.
[3] 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.