Hannah August is Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. She holds a UPhD and MA from King's College London and undergraduate degrees from the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is the author of Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England (2022) and several book chapters and articles on the history of reading early modern drama.
Francis X. Conor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.

• General Editors' Preface to The New Oxford Shakespeare


• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of William Shakespeare


• ROMEO AND JULIET

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.