David Bevington (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor Emeritus of English
and of Comparative Literature and Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished
Service Professor in the Humanities at The University of
Chicago. His studies include From "Mankind" to Marlowe; Tudor
Drama and Politics; Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of
Gesture; Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience; This Wide
and Universal Theatre: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now;
Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth; Shakespeare
and Biography; and Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages. He is
the editor of Medieval Drama; The Bantam Shakespeare, in
twenty-nine paperback volumes; and The Complete Works of
Shakespeare; as well as the Oxford 1 Henry IV, the Cambridge Antony
and Cleopatra, and the Arden Troilus and Cressida. He has done
critical editions of John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao, Endymion, and
Midas for the Revels Plays. With Peter Holbrook he co-edited The
Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. He is the senior editor of the
Revels Student Editions, and is a senior editor of the Revels Plays
and of the Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He has
received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize from the University of
Virginia, the Quantrell Teaching Award at the University of
Chicago, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Lars Engle (Ph.D. Yale) is James G. Watson Professor of English at
the University of Tulsa, where he has chaired English, directed
Honors, and won the University Outstanding Teacher Award and the
College Excellence in Teaching Prize. He also teaches at Bread
Loaf, held a Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies
at Virginia, and won the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Work in the
Humanities at Yale. A former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association
of America, he is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of
His Time and, with Eric Rasmussen, of Studying Shakespeare's
Contemporaries. Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), The
Early Seventeenth Century, is James Branch Cabell Professor of
English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Being
and Having in Shakespeare, Inwardness and Theater in the English
Renaissance, and Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of
a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and coeditor of The Norton
Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, and a
collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She
has been awarded Guggenheim, Leverhulme, NEH, and ACLS fellowships,
and the Roland Bainton Prize for Inwardness and Theater. Eric
Rasmussen (Ph.D. Chicago) is Foundation Professor and Chair of
English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor of the Royal
Shakespeare Company's Complete Works of William Shakespeare and of
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. He has
received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for
the New Variorum Hamlet, the Mousel-Feltner Research Award, and the
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities. Professor Rasmussen
is the author of A Textual Companion to "Doctor Faustus" and
co-editor of Doctor Faustus A- and B-Texts (Revels Plays),
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (World’s
Classics), the forthcoming New Variorum Hamlet, and King Henry VI,
Part 3 (the Arden Shakespeare Third Series). He writes the annual
review of "Editions and Textual Studies" for Shakespeare Survey.
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