About the Author

The Author: J. L. Styan is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Theatre at Northwestern University. He was educated at Cambridge, where he received his M.A., and has published more than a dozen books on drama, including The Elements of Drama, Shakespeare's Stagecraft, Chekhov in Performance, and Modern Drama in Theory and Practice (3 vols.). In 1995, he was awarded the Robert Lewis Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Research.