GARY TAYLOR, George Matthew Edgar Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, is General Editor of the Oxford editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works (1986, 2005) and of Thomas Middleton's Collected Works (2007), and of the Palgrave series Signs of Race (2005-). He was the founding Director (2005-7) of the interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies program at FSU, and has written about the practice and theory of editing in various periods and genres; he served (1995) as one of the judges of the first MLA prize for editing, and in 2006 gave the McKenzie lectures at Oxford University on Edward Blount, the chief publisher of the 1623 Shakespeare folio. Taylor's Moment by Moment by Shakespeare (MacMillan, 1985) was the winner of a Choice Award for "Outstanding Academic Book." His other books include a history of Shakespeare's reputation (Reinventing Shakespeare, 1989: "the most ambitious book on Shakespeare ever written", according to a review in Shakespeare Quarterly), a theory of artistic reputations generally (Cultural Selection, 1996: "brilliant insights and beautifully reasoned prose…an original and striking analysis of culture", according to the New York Times Book Review), and "an abbreviated history of Western manhood" (Castration, 2000: "terrific reading," according to Salon.com). He has also worked to communicate contemporary literary theory and criticism to a mass audience (newspapers, radio, TV, and theatres in North America and UK).

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip Hop (volumes one and two of the series Signs of Race, published by Palgrave, 2005.
• The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood. New York and London: Routledge, October 2000.
• Cultural Selection. New York: Basic Books, 1996. Rpt. (paperback ed.) 1997.
• Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623. With John Jowett. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1993. Rpt. 1997.
• Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. New York & London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1989. Rpt. ( Oxford U P paperback ed.) 1991.
• William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. With Stanley Wells, John Jowett and William Montgomery. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1987. Rpt. (paperback ed.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
• Moment by Moment by Shakespeare. London and New York: MacMillan, 1985. Published in the United States as To Analyze Delight.
• Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling with Three Studies in the Text of Henry V. With Stanley Wells. New York & London: Oxford U P, 1979.

Books Edited

• The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to The Collected Works, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• John Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed, Revels Plays, 2006, co-edited with Celia R. Daileader.
• The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Text. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
• Macbeth. Edited and annotated for CD-ROM edition. With Jim Bride. New York: Bride Media, 1997.
• Romeo and Juliet. Edited and annotated for CD-ROM edition. With Jim Bride & Celia Daileader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Shakespeare's Editors from Rowe to Alexander. Ed. with Stanley Wells. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1988.
• The Complete Works, William Shakespeare. Gen. Ed. with Stanley Wells. New York & London: Oxford U P, 1986. Rpt. on Compact Disc (Oxford, 1989); Rpt. in paperback (Oxford, 1994); Rpt. in three-volume paperback (Oxford, 1994).
• The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition, William Shakespeare. Gen. Ed. with Stanley Wells. Oxford U P, 1986.
• The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of King Lear. New York & London: Oxford U P, 1983. Rpt. in paperback edition, 1986.

Articles and Essays

• "Strange Bedfellows" [on Shakespeare and Islam], Guardian, November 18, 2004.
• "Prince Charmless" [on the RSC production of Hamlet], Guardian, July 26, 2004.
• "Stephen, Will and Gary too" [on Stephen Greenblatt's biography of Shakespeare], Guardian, October 9, 2004.
• "Shakespeare's Mediterranean Measure for Measure," in Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, 2001, ed. Tom Clayton, Susan Brock, and Vicente Fores (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004), 243-69.
• "Tears for Heroes" [on the RSC's new tragedy season], Guardian Review, February 14, 2004.
• "Heavens Below" [on Paradise Lost], Guardian Review, January 24, 2004.
• "The Cultural Politics of Maybe," in Region, Religion, and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare, ed. Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson (Manchester UP, 2003), 242-58.
• "You vile, hopeless, incompetent Brits" [on twelve new plays], Guardian, December 10, 2003.
• "Welcome to McBard's" [on the replica Globe in Rome], Guardian, October 8, 2003.
• "Cry Havoc" [on Shakespeare's Henry V and the Iraq war], The Guardian Review, (April 5, 2003).
• "Sleeping with the Enemy" [on Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage], The Guardian Review, (June 7, 2003).
• "The Heaven of Invention" [on the BBC Documentary Searching for Shakespeare], The Guardian Review, (July 12, 2003).
• "Made in Rome" [on Shakespeare's Cymbeline], Guardian, (July 30, 2003).
• "Preface" in Commendatory Verse and Authorship in the English Renaissance by Wayne A. Chandler (Edwin Mellen, 2003).
• "Middleton and Rowley-and Heywood: The Old Law and New Technologies of Attribution," Papers for the Bibliographical Society of America, 96 (2002), 165-218.
• "Shakespeare Plays on Renaissance Stages" in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare in the Theatre, ed. Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 1-27.
• "Power, Pathos, Character." in Harold Bloom and the Interpretation of Shakespeare, ed. Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer (New York: Palsgrave, 2001), 43-64.
• "Thomas Middleton, The Nice Valour, and the Court of James I." Court Historian 6 (2001), 1-37.
• "Divine [ ] sences." in Shakespeare Survey 54 (Cambridge University Press, 2001): 13-30.
• "Gender, Hunger, Horror: The History and Significance of The Bloody Banquet." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 1 (2001): 1-45.
• "Hamlet in Africa 1607." Travel Knowledge. ed. Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna Singh (New York: St. Martin's, 2000): 211-48.
• "Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, and The Bloody Banquet." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94 (2000): 197-233.
• "Theatrical Proximities: The Stratford Festival, 1998." Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (1999): 334-354.
• "Thomas Middleton, Lording Barry and The Family of Love," co-authored with Paul Mulholland and Mac D. P. Jackson. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 93 (1999): 213-242.
• "Afterword: The Incredible Shrinking Bard," in Shakespeare and Appropriation, ed. Robert Sawyer and Kristin McDermott (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), 197-205.
• "Feeling Bodies." Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Ed. Jonathan Bate et al. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.
• "Judgement." New Texts, Old Texts: Papers on the English Renaissance Text Society. Ed. W. Speed Hill. Tempe, AZ: 1998.
• "What Is an Author [not]?" Critical Survey 7 (1995): 241-255.
• "Shakespeare and Others: The Authorship of 1 Henry VI." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 7 (1995): 145-205.

Essays in Anthologies

• "Revising Shakespeare" in Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000, ed. Russ Mcdonald (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
• "The Fortunes of Oldcastle" and "The War in King Lear" in Shakespeare Criticism 1953-2003, ed. Sarah Stanton and Stanley Wells (Cambridge UP, 2003).
• "The Fortunes of Oldcastle" in 1 Henry IV, Norton Critical Edition, 3d. Ed., ed. Gordon McMullan (New York, 2003), 129-49.
• Excerpt from Reinventing Shakespeare ("Singularity") in Elizabethan Drama. ed. Laura K. Egendorf. Greenhaven Press Companion to Literary Movements and Genres (2000), 166-171.
• Excerpt from Reinventing Shakespeare ("1709") in Reception Study. ed. James L. Machor and Philip Goldstein (Routledge, 2000).
• Excerpt from Reinventing Shakespeare ("Present Tense") in A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism. ed. Richard Danson Brown and David Johnson, The Open University (Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2000), 305-11.
• "Textual and Sexual Criticism" rpt. in Shakespeare and Gender, ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen (New York: Garland, 1999), 305-335.
• "Revising Shakespeare" rpt. in Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition, ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen (New York: Garland, 1999).
• "Inventing Shakespeare" and "Folio Copy" reprinted in Shakespeare and the Editorial Tradition, ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen (New York: Garland, 1999), 124-43, 378-96.
• "Bardicide," rpt. in Julius Caesar: A Casebook, ed. Richard Wilson (MacMillan: forthcoming 2001).