Paul Werstine, Western University
Department of English and Writing Studies
King's University College
Professor
London, Ontario
werstine@uwo.ca
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(519) 433-3491 ext. 4550
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Bio/Research
Dr. Werstine's major research interests are Shakespeare and the editing of the plays and poems attributed to him, especially the plays that had become available by 1623 in more than one text— King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and others. He has been at work editing the Shakespeare pla...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Werstine's major research interests are Shakespeare and the editing of the plays and poems attributed to him, especially the plays that had become available by 1623 in more than one text— King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and others. He has been at work editing the Shakespeare plays and poems for the past twenty years in the Folger Library Shakespeare edition. The last book in the series, The Two Noble Kinsmen, was published in 2010, when a second edition began to be published with The Merchant of Venice. But his interest does not stop with Shakespeare: it involves the plays of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by other dramatists, many of them anonymous, particularly if these plays survive in manuscript. Beyond these specialized interests are those in the reception of Shakespeare and his contemporaries between their time and ours, as well as broader issues in editorial theory. As general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, he is working daily on the reception history of the plays because it is the ambition of that series to include as much of that history as possible and, more recently, to display that history in the electronic medium.
The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Shakespeare: an edition of forty-two volumes that includes the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare and present them in a way accessible to a wide readership. It breaks new ground in its typographical arrangement of the plays that survive in multiple texts.
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The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Shakespeare: an edition of forty-two volumes that includes the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare and present them in a way accessible to a wide readership. It breaks new ground in its typographical arrangement of the plays that survive in multiple texts.
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