Gabriel Egan . com

I AM Reader in Shakespeare Studies at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and an editor of the academic journals Theatre Notebook and Shakespeare.

My books My books Edinburgh Critical Guide to Shakespeare (2007),  Green Shakespeare (2006), and Shakespeare and Marx (2004; reprinted in Turkish as Shakespeare ve Marx 2006) are available from bookshops or (by those links) directly from their publishers.

What? Where? is a cheat-sheet showing the conventions for advanced searching on 7 large electronic databases for early modern literary research

NSDD is the non-Shakespearian Drama Database, a collaborative project to collate and distribute without charge basic information about all the professional drama written for the London stage 1567-1642.

SAA-2010 is a page for participants in the seminar "New Variations in Texts and Editing" that I am running at the 38th annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Chicago on 2 April 2010

SHAXICAN is a collaborative project to test Donald Foster's theories--allegedly embodied in his never-revealed SHAXICON database--about Shakespeare's rare-word usage being influenced by the vocabulary of the acting parts he took in his own plays. Now that Foster has been revealed as a charlatan, this project is moribund.

publications lists my research outputs and, where possible, gives full-text copies of them.