Thorndike Ashley HAshley Horace Thorndike lived in America from 1871 until his death on April 17, 1933, was an educator. He was the brother of Lynn Thorndike, an American historian of mediaeval science and alchemy, and Edward Lee Thorndike, who is credited with foundig contemporary educational psychology. He was the son of clergyman Edward R. Thorndike. He was a professor at Columbia University and the coauthor of the renowned textbooks Facts about Shakespeare, Tragedy, and English Comedy. When returning from a club dinner in Manhattan, he passed away after a heart attack. He was Lynn Thorndike's brother, a mediaeval historian. In order to categories' plays created in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, he coined the phrase "revenge tragedy" in 1900. He gave the Shakespeare Lecture at the British Academy in 1927. Read More Read Less