R. A. Foakes

Reginald A. Foakes (born 18 October 1923) is an English author and Shakesperian scholar. He has published works on Shakespeare and the Romantic poets, and has edited many of Shakespeare's plays in the Arden and New Cambridge editions. He is currently (December 2007) Professor Emeritus in the department of English literature at UCLA.^[1]^[2]

In 2001, the University of Birmingham gave Foakes an honorary degree in honor of the 50th anniversary of their Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[3]

References

^ Faculty profile, UCLA, retrieved 2011-11-05.
^ Prof Reginald Foakes, Debrett's, retrieved 2011-11-05.
^ "Glittering prizes", Times Higher Education, 7 September 2001, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=164739&sectioncode=26 .

Additional reading

Imagined Places: A life in the twentieth century (Xlibris, 2005, ISBN 9781413499148), Foakes' autobiography.
Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes (Grace Ioppolo, ed., University of Delaware Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0874137323)

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