Robert N. Watson

Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, and has taught Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at Stanford, Harvard, and leading liberal arts colleges. He is the author of books on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, the fear of death in Renaissance culture, the roots of modern environmentalism in Renaissance literature and painting, and plays by Shakespeare and Jonson. His book for general audiences, Shakespeare’s Tragedies: What Makes Them Great, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.