Shakespeare's World: Seeing the Plays Through Elizabethan Eyes

Dennis Krausnick was a founding member of Shakespeare & Company, based in Lenox, MA. For 25 years, he was its Director of Training. As a master teacher, he taught at countless theater companies and universities, including NYU, Boston University, MIT, Prague Shakespeare Company, and more. As an actor, Dennis's favorite roles included King Lear, Polonius, and Capulet. He also staged many Shakespeare plays. Dennis passed away in 2018, having spent the last months of his life working on the vision and scope of this book, Shakespeare's World.

Josh Lubarr is a writer and editor whose work includes plays and sketch comedy, expert congressional testimony, magazine articles, technical content, and much more. His acting training includes work at Shakespeare & Company, where he also co-directed Hamlet as part of the inaugural Fall Festival of Shakespeare.

Rebecca Goodheart, the Executive Artistic Director at Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, CT, has directed most of Shakespeare's plays. Her scholarship has been published in the Journal of the Wooden O and Shakespeare Criticism Online. Rebecca both founded and was Producing Artistic Director for the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.