Areas of Interest
- Renaissance Dramatic
- Modern Dramatic
Publications
The Oxford edition of Romeo and Juliet (2000), and the introduction for the Malone Society edition of the first Quarto (2000).
Recent essays on Romeo and Juliet: codes of violence (1995), rhetoric (1996), teaching the play through performance (1999), multiple texts (2000), narrative strategies (2000).
Papers on editing: after poststructuralism (1998) and with theatrical documents (1999).
In addition, the chapter on "Comedy" in the Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990);
Shakespeare in Performance: "Romeo and Juliet" (1987);
Essays on the original Romeo and Juliet narrative (1984) and on poetry in the play (1983).
On modern drama, essays on Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare Survey (1983) and in a Cambridge Companion volume on Stoppard (2001).
In 1998 edited a collection of essays, Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century, with Jonathan Bate and Dieter Mehl.
Current Research
With a Connaught fellowship, launched a book-length project on Shakespeare and modern drama for Oxford University Press. Also preparing a descriptive bibliography for Romeo and Juliet and Othello.