This second edition is must reading for those interested in Shakespeare and early modern English theater.
Educated at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Nottingham, Professor Dutton taught English for 29 years at Lancaster University. He then moved to The Ohio State University where he was Humanities Distinguished Professor of English for 13 years, five of them as chair of department. Following retirement in 2016, he held a three-year part-time research position at Queen's University, Belfast. In the course of his career he has authored and edited some 30 books and received research funding from numerous sources, including the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Folger and Huntington Libraries, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.