English

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., University of Chicago
B.A., Princeton University

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INTERESTS: Early modern English literature and culture, especially Shakespeare and Milton; History of the Book; editing and editorial theory

My primary intellectual concern is with the relations of literature and history in early modern England, considered from a variety of perspectives. Increasingly this interest has focused on the production, transmission, and reception of texts (a focus that I like to think of as “the new boredom”). I am one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare and the series editor of the new Barnes and Noble Shakespeare. Presently I am working on two books: Shakespeare and Religion and The Invention of English Literature.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, (ed.), OUP, 2006

--John Milton, Paradise Lost, (ed.), Hackett, 2005

--Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (A and B texts), (ed.), Norton, 2005

--William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, (ed.), Arden edition, 2002

--Shakespeare and the Book, CUP, 2001

--Shakespeare after Theory, Routledge, 1999

--A Companion to Shakespeare (ed.), Blackwell, 1999

--The New History of Early English Drama (ed., with John Cox), Columbia, 1997