The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564,
and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of
his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on
April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church,
Stratford.
Stephen Orgelis the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the
Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. He has
edited Ben Johnson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and
translations, and many other classics. His books includeImagining
Shakespeare,The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations- The
Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's EnglandandThe Illusion of
Power.
A. R. Braunmuller is a professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has
written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has
edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth)
series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The
New Cambridge Shakespeare.
Manuja Waldia is an illustrator and visual designer, living in
Indianapolis. She graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art &
Design in 2014.
Russ McDonald is a professor of English at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. He is the author of The Bedford Companion to
Shakespeare. He has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare
Association of America and was a director of the Teaching
Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.”
—Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture
course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series
available for students.”
—Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and
Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
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