David Schalkwyk is currently Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English department and Director of the Centre for Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary University of London. He was formerly Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. and editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly. Before that he was Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, where he held the positions of Head of Department and Deputy Dean in the faculty of the Humanities. He has published some 200 essays in book collections and academic journals. His books include Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays (Cambridge, 2002), Literature and the Touch of the Real (Delaware, 2004), Shakespeare, Love and Service (Cambridge, 2008), Hamlet’s Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare (Arden Shakespeare, 2013), The Word Against the World: The Bakhtin Circle (Skene, 2016) and Shakespeare, Love and Language (Cambridge, 2018). He’s currently working on a book on the sonnets called “The Articulation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” and is co-editor of a collection on Shakespeare and rape culture.
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