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Michael Schmidt

Featured Title The Shakespeare Handbook, co-authored with Robert Maslen. Following the successful format of Great Modern Poets, (Quercus, 2007), this is a witty, enticing introduction to the plays of Shakespeare: taking 50 of the most essential, most exciting, most moving, most thrilling scenes, accompanied by short introductions by the co-authors which will illuminate the scenes for the general reader.

	Poet, publisher, critic, academic, and writer of fiction. Currently the University of Glasgow's first Professor of Poetry, he is also Convener of the M. Litt. in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
	He was awarded an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
	The Shakespeare Handook will be published by Quercus in 2008

No Text Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947 and studied at the universities of Harvard and Oxford. He is currently working on Lives of the Novelists, a companion to his acclaimed 1998 Lives of the Poets due for completion at the end of 2009.

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