David Taylor

is associate professor of English Literature at St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford, and a member of the R/18 Collective, an international group of scholars committed to working with theatre makers and researchers to re-activate the Restoration and 18th-century repertoire for the 21st century. David has written extensively about Shakespeare in the 18th century, most recently in his book The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature (Yale UP, 2018). In 2017 he curated the exhibition "Draw New Mischief: 250 Years of Shakespeare and Politics Cartoons" at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.