Prof Reginald Foakes

Career: sr lectr in English Univ of Durham 1963-64 (lectr 1954-62), Cwlth Fund (Harkness) fell Yale Univ 1955-56; Univ of Kent at Canterbury: prof of English literature 1964-82, dean Faculty of Humanities 1974-77, currently emeritus prof of English and American literature; prof of English UCLA 1983; visiting prof: Univ of Toronto 1960-62, Univ of Calif Santa Barbara 1968-69, UCLA 1981; Hon DLitt Univ of Kent 2009

Books and Publications: Shakespeare's King Henry VIII (ed 1957), The Romantic Assertion (1958, 1972), Henslowe's Diary (ed with R T Rickert, 1961, 2 edn 2002), Coleridge on Shakespeare (1971), Marston and Tourneur (1978), Illustrations of the English Stage 1580-1642 (1985), Coleridge's Lectures 1808-1819, On Literature (ed 2 Vols, 1987), Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art (1993), King Lear (ed 1997), Shakespeare and Violence (2003), Inventing Parents (2004), Imagined Places (2005), Just Watch Your Step (2010)