Reginald A. Foakes is an English author and Shakesperian scholar. He has published works on Shakespeare and the Romantic

Romanticism

Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

 poets, and has edited many of Shakespeare's plays in the Arden and New Cambridge editions. He is currently (December 2007) Professor Emeritus

Emeritus

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 in the department of English literature

English literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

 at UCLA.

In 2001, the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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gave Foakes an honorary degree in honor of the 50th anniversary of their Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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)