Frederick Burwick

Frederick Burwick, Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles

Taught Romantic drama at UCLA, and directed dozens of performances of plays of the Romantic period.

Author and editor of thirty-three books and one hundred and fifty articles

Distinguished Scholar, British Academy (1992) and Keats-Shelley Association (1998)

Lifetime AchievementAward, International Conference on Romanticism (2013)

Editor, Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2009)

General editor: Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (2012), 3 vols.

His books on Romantic Drama include:

Illusion and the Drama (1991)

Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting (2009)

Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780–1830 (2011)

British Drama of the Industrial Revolution (2015)

British Pirates in Print and Performance (2015), with Manushag Powell.