Grace Ioppolo is Professor Emerita and formerly Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama at the University of Reading. Her publications include Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse (2006) as well as Raising Shakespeare (1991) and Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes (2000). She has produced critical editions of Shakespeare's King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure and Thomas Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent. She has published numerous articles of textual transmission, the history of the book, and manuscript culture, as well as on the autograph manuscripts of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Lettice Knollys, Penelope Rich, Dorothy Percy and Frances Walsingham.
