John D. Jowett is an English
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
scholar and editor. He is the Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the
University of Birmingham
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and Deputy Director of the
Shakespeare Institute.
Born in
Lancashire
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, England, Jowett took his
BA and
MA at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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, and was awarded a
PhD from
Liverpool University. His doctoral thesis was an edition of
Henry Chettle's ''Tragedy of Hoffman'' (1983). He went to the
Oxford University Press
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as an academic editor of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works (1986–87). He was lecturer at the
University of Waikato
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The university performs research in nume ...
in
Hamilton, New Zealand
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, and taught for a year at the
University of Glasgow
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. He was appointed to the Shakespeare Institute in 1993. He is the general editor of the
New Oxford Shakespeare and general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama, a series that publishes non-Shakespearean drama of the early modern period; and serves on the editorial board of the
Malone Society and the advisory board of
Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Major publications
* Chettle, Henry. ''The Tragedy of Hoffman'' (1983) University of Liverpool.
* ''William Shakespeare, Complete Works'' (1986, rev. 2005) ed. with Wells, Taylor, and Montgomery, Oxford University Press.
* ''William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion'' (1987) With Wells, Taylor, and Montgomery, Oxford University Press.
* Shakespeare, William. '' Richard III'' (2000) Oxford University Press.
* Shakespeare, William, and Thomas Middleton. ''Timon of Athens'' (2004) Oxford University Press.
* ''Shakespeare and Text.'' (2007) Oxford University Press.
References
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External links
The New Oxford Shakespeare ProjectThe Shakespeare InstituteThomas Middleton, the Collected Works
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Living people
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Shakespearean scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)