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S. Viswanathan retired as Professor of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Earlier, he taught at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He has held fellowships at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. (1974-75) and the Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland (1984-85), and was also UGC National Lecturer in English (1986-87). Apart from about a hundred articles on Shakespeare and on a range of other literary topics in professional journals and collections in India and abroad, he has published The Shakespeare Play as Poem: A Critical Tradition in Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) and On Shakespeare’s Dramaturgy (New Delhi: Spantech Publishers, 1993); he has co-edited Shakespeare in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987) with S. Nagarajan and Critical Essays in Honour of V.S. Seturaman (Madras: Macmillan, 1987) with C T Indra and T Sriraman. He is General Editor of the Orient Longman Drama Classics, a series of play editions.