This edition ofRomeo and Julietis edited with an introduction by Peter Holland.
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.
Peter Hollandwas director of the Shakespeare Institute,
Stratford-upon-Avon, and a professor of Shakespeare studies at the
University of Birmingham. He is now McMeel Family Chair of
Shakespeare Studies at University of Notre Dame.
A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished 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.
Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the
Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books
include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare,
Impersonations- The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England
and The Illusion of Power.
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