David Bevington (Series Advisor, Twelfth Night)
is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the
Humanities at the University of Chicago. A renowned text scholar, he
has edited several Shakespeare editions including the Bantam Shakespeare in individual paperback volumes, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, (Longman, 2003), and Troilus and Cressida (Arden, 1998). He teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and Medieval Drama.
L. G. Black (Othello) is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Oriel College. He is an editor of the long-established journal Notes & Queries.
Terri Bourus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet) is Associate Professor of English Drama at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis where she teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and Early Modern Drama. She is now developing a program in Early Modern Performance and Textual Studies at IUPUI. Dr. Bourus has published widely on Shakespeare’s texts and on Shakespeare in performance, including Shakespeare and the London Publishing Environment: The Publisher of Q1 and Q2 Hamlet, The First Quarto of Hamlet in Film: The Revenge Tragedies of Tony Richardson and Franco Zefferelli, and ‘Enter Hamlet [reading a book]’: Shakespeare’s ‘Other’ Audience and the Publication of the Hamlet Quartos. Professor Bourus is the recipient of several university teaching awards including the Amicus Award, the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, and the prestigious 2006 Claude Rich Excellence in Teaching Award. She has also received several substantial research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Institute, Indiana University, and the Lilly Foundation in recognition of her ongoing work on Shakespeare.
Douglas A. Brooks (King Lear) is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and the Editor of Shakespeare Yearbook. He is the author of From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2000) and the editor of two collections of essays, Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005) and Milton and the Jews, forthcoming Cambridge UP. Brooks has published essays in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Shakespeare Studies, ELR, Philological Quarterly, Genre, Renaissance Drama, Studies in English Literature, and Poetics Today.
Andrew Fleck (Henry V) is Associate Professor of English at San Jose State University. His essays have appeared in Studies in Philology, Shakespeare Yearbook, Studies in English Literature, Modern Philology, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, and elsewhere.
Antonia Forster (The Taming of the Shrew) is Professor of English at the University of Akron. Her Index to Book Reviews in England 1749-1774 was awarded the 1992 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy, and the second volume to take the Index to 1800 was published by the British Library in 1997. Her Vol. 1 (1770-1799) of The English Novel 1770-1829: a Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (with James Raven) was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. She has published articles in such journals as The Age of Johnson, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History.
Jeffrey Kahan (Much Ado about Nothing) completed his Ph.D. at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is author of Reforging Shakespeare, The Cult of Kean, Caped Crusaders 101, and editor of numerous texts, including Shakespeare Imitataions, Parodies and Forgeries 1710-1820. He is the ongoing series editor of Shakespeare Millenium. Dr. Kahan is Associate Professor at the University of La Verne.
Robert Ormsby (Julius Caesar) received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2005. Besides essays on Canadian performances of classical drama (Toronto Slavic Quarterly, May, 2003; Shakespeare Bulletin, Summer 2004), his publications include Descriptive Entries of Folger Library collection prompt-books for Coriolanus productions by John Philip Kemble, Samuel Phelps and Henry Irving (The Shakespeare Collection) and a review of Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance by W.B. Worthen. (Renaissance Quarterly, Summer 2004).
Richard Preiss (The Tempest) received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. His published articles include Natural Authorship (Renaissance Drama, 2006), Robert Armin Do the Police in Different Voices (from Performance to Print in Shakespeare’s England, ed. Peter Holland and Stephen Orgel, 2006), and Mucedorus: A Play Finally Anonymous (Shakespeare Yearbook, 2007).
William Proctor Williams (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Richard III, Titus Andronicus) is Professor of English Emeritus at Northern Illinois University and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Akron. He has received numerous grants and awards including a National Endowment for the Humanities research grant, a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, and in 2003-2004 was the Myra and Charlton Hinman Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Series Editors of [The Sourcebooks Shakespeare]
Marie Macaisa has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for many years on the research and development of innovative applications of computer technology before becoming the series editor of The Sourcebooks Shakespeare in 2003. She writes the Cast Speaks essays in the series and is the producer of the accompanying audio CDs.
Dominique Raccah is the founder, president, and publisher of Sourcebooks. Born in Paris, France, she has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois. In addition to The Sourcebooks Shakespeare, she also serves as series editor of Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children.