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Germaine Greer is nearly 80 years of age now. In 1959 she graduated from Melbourne University with a BA in English and French language and literature. In 1963 she was awarded MA and a Commonwealth Scholarship first-class in romantic era poetry, entitled The Development of Byron's Satiric Mode, which she used to fund her doctorate.
Greer joined the student acting company, the Cambridge Footlights in October 1964, on the same day as Clive James and Russell Davies.[18] She was billed in 1965 as the first woman to be granted full membership. She received her PhD in 1969 for a thesis entitled The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare's Early Comedies.
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