Michael Dobson (English studies)
Michael Dobson (born 1960) is a British Shakespeare scholar, professor at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon .
life and work
Dobson studied at Oxford, where he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize as a student in 1981 and received his doctorate in 1990 . In 1987 he married Nicola Watson. He has taught at Harvard , the University of California, Los Angeles and the Roehampton Institute . 2005 Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College of the University of London and in 2011 director of the Shakespeare Institute . He is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies , the British Academy, and the American Philosophical Society . He co-founded the European Shakespeare Research Association and advises the Shakespeare program of the British-American Drama Academy . He is a writer for the BBC and the London Review of Books . Together with Dympna Callaghan he is the editor of the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies monograph series .
Selection of publications
Books
- Michael Dobson: Shakespeare and Amateur Performance: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 9781107613201
- Michael Dobson: The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1992. ISBN 0-19-818323-2
- Michael Dobson and Nicola Watson: England's Elizabeth: an afterlife in fame and fantasy. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 9781280444913
Editing
- Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells : The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. OUP 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-280614-7 . Second Edition 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 .
- Michael Dobson: Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: the actor's perspective. CUP 2006. ISBN 0521855098
Editions
- William Shakespeare: The New Penguin Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. ed. by Michael Dobson. Penguin, 2005. ISBN 9780141014708
- William Rowley and Thomas Middleton: Wit at Several Weapons. ed. by Michael Dobson. in: Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. General editors: Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Pp. 980-1027. OUP 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-958053-8
Cooperation
- Michael Dobson: John Philip Kemble . in: Peter Holland: Great Shakespeareans. Vol. 2. Continuum, 2010. ISBN 9781472578549
Web links
- Michael Dobson
- British American Drama Academy
- European Shakespeare Research Association
- Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
- World-Cat Identity for Michael Dobson
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dobson, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British English and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |