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 new book! is The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth Century Editorial Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

My previous books are the Edinburgh Critical Guide to Shakespeare (2007),  Green Shakespeare (2006), Shakespeare and Marx (2004; reprinted in Turkish as Shakespeare ve Marx 2006), and an edition of Richard Brome and Thomas Heywood's The Witches of Lancashire (2002).  These 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.

Beyond the Facsimile is a page for participants in the Digital Humanities day called "Before the Facsimile: Rich Models of Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts" being held at Sheffield Hallam University on Monday 13 December 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.