contemporary productions. They are published by Sourcebooks, and Bevington served as advisory editor for the series. Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet (2005) Julius Caesar (2006) Hamlet (2006) King Lear (2007) Othello (2005) Macbeth (2006) Comedies and Romances: The Taming of the Shrew (2008) The Merchant of Venice (2008) A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005) Much Ado about Nothing (2006) The Tempest (2008) Histories: Richard III (2007) Others David Bevington's work as editor of drama included several individual plays and anthologies not tied to any larger series. The Oxford, Cambridge, and Arden editions are significantly more scholarly than the Signet and above-mentioned Bantam plays; that is, the scholar assumes the reader to be somewhat versed in Elizabethan English such that the glossaries focus more on mythological and cultural references than mere syntax. They are recommended for graduate students and undergraduates. Medieval Drama, Wadsworth Publishing (1975) Richard II, Signet Classics (1999) Troilus and Cressida (Arden Shakespeare, 1998) English Renaissance Drama, A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton & Co., 2002) Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge University Press, 2005) The Spanish Tragedy (Methuen Drama, 2007) Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford University Press, 2008), a Marlowe collection leaving out an early play whose authenticity is controversial, and a late play, which has survived only fragmentally. Henry IV, Part 1, of Oxford World Classics' The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2008) The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Other scholarship As editor Twentieth Century Interpretations of Hamlet, Prentice Hall Trade (1968) An Introduction to Shakespeare, Scott, Foresman (1975) Shakespeare: Pattern of Excelling Nature, Associated University Presses (1978) Henry IV, Parts I and II: Critical Essays, Garland (1986) The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, with Peter Holbrook (Cambridge University Press, 1998) As contributor 'Bring Furth the Pagants': Essays in Early English Drama (University of Toronto Press, 2007) References External links Bevington's homepage at the University of Chicago English Department website Bevington's homepage at the University of Chicago Comparative Literature website Video interview The Collected Works of Ben Jonson 1931 births 2019 deaths American academics of English literature Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Harvard University alumni Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Shakespearean scholars University of Chicago faculty University of Virginia faculty Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy