Biographie de l'auteur :
Simon Trussler is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and the author or editor of numerous books on drama and theatre, including The Faber Pocket Guide to Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Shakespearean Concepts (1989), the award-winning Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (1993) and Will's Will (2007). He was editor of the RSC Yearbook from 1978 to1985, edited and introduced fourteen volumes in the 'SwanTheatre Plays' series (Methuen, 1986-89), and is typo graphical consultant for the 'Shakespeare Folios' series, in which eighteen titles have so far appeared. He was formerly Reader in Drama in the University of London and Senior Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College, where he is now Professor Emeritus..
Revue de presse :
John Webster's Charnel house tale... a Jacobean masterpiece... the characters of this flamboyant 17th-century tragedy of wild justice would be entirely recognisable to us today from kiss and tell tabloid stories. --Guardian
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