Inventing the Icon: How Shakespeare Became "Shakespeare"

Paul Menzer is Executive Director and professor of Shakespeare and Performance at Mary Baldwin University. He is the editor of Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage (2006), Romeo and Juliet (2017), Doctor Faustus (2018), and Richard III (2027). He is author of The Hamlets (2008), Anecdotal Shakespeare (2015), Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center (2016), Shakespeare Without Print (2023), The Brief Life of William Shakespeare (2023), and The Complete Life of William Shakespeare (2026).