Shakespeare's Blank Verse

Robert Stagg is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and an Associate Senior Member of St Anne's College, Oxford. He also serves as a Fourth Series Fellow on the Advisory and Editorial Board of the Arden Shakespeare. His work has appeared in The Review of English Studies, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Studies in Philology, and Essays in Criticism, as well as several edited collections.

A beautifully articulate, extensively researched and utterly compelling alternative history of blank verse, this book speaks to readers not just of Shakespeare but of English Renaissance writing more generally. This new book revitalizes an old subject with erudition and panache, going far beyond Shakespeare in its ambitions and reach.