Grace J. Ioppolo

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 Revising Shakespeare (1991) and Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes (2000). She has produced critical editions of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Measure for Measure and Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent and has published numerous articles on textual transmission and manuscript culture. She is the General Editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood, forthcoming from Oxford Univeristy Press. She founded the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project in 2004, launched and hosted by King's College London's Digital Lab since 2009, and expanded and relaunched in 2018.

With Peter Beal she has co-edited Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (2007), a collection of essays on manuscripts written by, to, or for Queen Elizabeth, and English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 11: Manuscripts and their Makers in the English Renaissance (2002).