The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition: Essential Plays / The Sonnets (Second Edition)
Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of eleven books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Walter Cohen (Ph.D. Berkeley) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of  the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell  University, where he formerly was Dean of the  Graduate School and Vice Provost of the  university.  He is the author of Drama of a  Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England  and Spain, as well as numerous journal  articles.Jean E. Howard (Ph.D., Yale) is  the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Author of  Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration,  The Stage and Social Struggle in Early  Modern England, Engendering a  Nation (with Phyllis Rackin), and  Theater of a City: The Places of London  Comedy, she has edited six collections of  essays, including the four-volume Blackwell's  Companion to Shakespeare's Works.  General Editor of the Bedford contextual  editions of Shakespeare, Howard is Past  President of the Shakespeare Association of  America. She has received numerous fellowships  and awards including Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH,  Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Library  Fellowships. At Syracuse University she received the Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate  Teaching and at Columbia University the  University Graduate Mentoring Award.Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She received the 1996 Roland Bainton Book Prize for Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. She is also the author of Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, The Norton Shakespeare, and a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She is a recipient of Guggenheim, NEH,  and ACLS fellowships.