Shakespeare and Character: Theory, History, Performance and Theatrical Persons

Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.

PAUL YACHNIN is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Chair of the English Department at McGill University, Canada, and Director of the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team and the Making Publics Project. His books are Stage-Wrights (1997); The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England (2001, with Anthony Dawson); and Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance (2008, with Patricia Badir). He is an editor of Oxford Complete Works of Thomas Middleton. Work-in-progress includes an edition of Richard II and a book-length study, Shakespeare and the Social Thing: Making Publics in the Renaissance Theatre.

JESSICA SLIGHTS is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of English at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has published on and lectured about various aspects of early modern literature and culture, and her work has appeared in English Studies in Canada, Studies in Philology and Studies in English Literature. She is currently preparing an edition of Othello for ISE/Broadview Press.