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William Proctor Williams

Professor Emeritus

Renaissance Drama, Textual Criticism, Bibliography

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Email: wpw@uakron.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D., Kansas State University; 1968

M.A., Kansas State University; 1964

Delegacy of Extra-Mural Studies Certificate, Oxford University (Exeter College); 1962

B.A., Kansas State University; 1961


Professional Interests


Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama

Physical Bibliography and Textual Criticism

16th - and 17th-century English literature


Selected Publications >

Selected Publications

  • Titus Andronicus (edition of the play with textual introduction, introduction, edited text, commentary and performance notes). London: Methuen and Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2010.
  • An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies. New York: MLA, 1985; second printing with corrections, 1986; Second Edition [with additions and corrections], 1989; Third Edition, 1999; Fourth Edition, 2009. (with Craig S. Abbott).
  • Romeo and Juliet (edition of the play with textual introduction, introduction, edited text, commentary and performance notes). London: Methuen and Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007.
  • Richard III (edition of the play with textual introduction, introduction, edited text, commentary and performance notes). London: Methuen and Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007.
  • Titus Andronicus in Washington, DC.” Shakespeare Newsletter 57 (2007). 1, 12 , 14.
  • “Hamlet’s Pockets: Problems with Stage Directions.” Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage. Ed. Paul Menzer. Cranbury, NJ and London: Susquehanna Univ. Press and Associated University Presses, 2006, 192-199.
  • “Roof? What Roof?: Titus Andronicus at the Globe in 2006.” Shakespeare Newsletter 56 (2006). 65-66, 72.