Profil
Prof. Paul Werstine
Affiliation
King’s University College at Western UniversityAcadémie ou Collège
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du CanadaAnnée d'admission
2010Domaines d’expertise
Shakespeare, editing, dramatic manuscripts, variorum
Werstine, Paul - English Literature - University of Western Ontario
Paul Werstine has edited Shakespeare’s plays and poems with Barbara A. Mowat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. He also serves, with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin, as general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, the most comprehensive of Shakespeare editions.
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Werstine, Paul - English Literature - King's University College at the University of Western Ontario Paul Werstine has been credited with transforming the field of Shakespeare editing and textual criticism. He has edited Shakespeare with Barbara A. Mowat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (1992-2010), the edition published in forty-two books by Simon and Schuster and aimed at a general audience. He has also served since 1996, with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin, as the general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, published by the Modern Language Association of America. The most comprehensive of Shakespeare editions, the Variorum contains reference to all significant writing about and performance of the works.