About the Author

Graham Holderness is Dean of Humanities, Languages and Education at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of many critical and educational books including: D H Lawrence: History, Ideology and Fiction (1982), Shakespeare’s History (1985), Open Guide to Wuthering Heights (1985), Open Guide to Women in Love (1986), Open Guide to Hamlet (1987), Penguin Critical Studies of Richard II (1989), Romeo and Juliet (1991) and The Merchant of Venice (1992), Shakespeare: The Histories (1999), and has published numerous journal articles on Anglo-Saxon verse, textual theory, and literature and theology.