Lionel Charles Knights (15 May 1906 – 8 March 1997) was an English literary critic, an authority on Shakespeare and his period.
[1] He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History and English, graduating with a first-class degree in 1928.
In his final undergraduate year he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare prize, shared with Humphrey Jennings.
He was elected to a research scholarship at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1930, where he worked on his doctoral thesis.
[1] He was a co-editor of Scrutiny, the literary journal of F. R. Leavis's school, from May 15, 1932, to 1953 when it ceased publication.