About the Editor

Hardy M. Cook is a Professor of English and has authored a number of papers on subjects ranging from Shakespeare on television to the editing of electronic texts.

He is co-editor with Ian Lancashire of Shake-speares Sonnets and Louers Complaint 1609 and editor of an electronic edition of Venus and Adonis, a part of the edition of Shakespeare's Poems he is preparing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions.

For his work with SHAKSPER and his other scholarly activities, Dr. Cook received the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Scholarship/Research/Creative Activities in April of 1999.

After a rewarding sabbatical year of continued and increasing involvement in scholarly activities, Dr. Cook is considering alternative opportunities that will be more conducive to his editorial and scholarly pursuits. (Please see his curriculum vitae, which can be viewed as HTML, or downloaded as an Adobe PDF file.) E-mail inquiries are welcome.