Meet the Editors
Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor (Ph.D. Yale), is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. Described in a 1993 New York Times Magazine profile as "easily the most prominent Renaissance scholar of his generation," he is the author of six books acknowledged as pioneering works of New Historicism. His most recent book is Hamlet in Purgatory.
Walter Cohen (Ph.D. Berkeley) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Dean of the Graduate School at Cornell University, where he also received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain as well as numerous journal articles.
Jean E. Howard (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of English at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She has written three books, most recently Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories, with Phyllis Rackin. She is also coeditor of Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, a collection of Marxist, New Historicist, and feminist essays on Shakespeare’s plays.
Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She has written two books, most recently Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, winner of the 1996 Roland Bainton Book Prize. She has also edited a volume of Renaissance tragedies and co edited a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry.
THE OXFORD EDITORS
Stanley Wells, General Editor, is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and the Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. His most recent book is Shakespeare: A Life in Drama.
Gary Taylor, General Editor, is Professor of English at the University of Alabama and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. His most recent book is Cultural Selection: Why Some Achievements Survive the Test of Time and Others Don’t.
With John Jowett and William Montgomery, Professor Wells and Taylor edited both the Compact and the Original spelling Editions (both 1988) and a Textual Companion (1987) as part of the Complete Oxford Shakespeare.
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