Taylor won scholarships that led to bachelor's degrees in English and Classics from the University of Kansas in 1979.
Taylor won a scholarship that led to a doctorate in English from the University of Cambridge in 1988.
(A comprehensive accompaniment and resource for students a...)
A comprehensive accompaniment and resource for students and educators. A comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems, setting forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition and providing a concise history of Shakespeare editing. Includes for each play, textual notes, press-variants, discussions of emendations and plausible alternative readings, and much more. Indispensable for serious students.
https://www.amazon.com/William-Shakespeare-Companion-John-Jowett/dp/039331667X/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his...)
Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his plays, and explains how he became regarded as the English language's finest writer.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555840787/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(John Jowett and Gary Taylor explore the ways in which Sha...)
John Jowett and Gary Taylor explore the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were reshaped in his lifetime and up until the publication of the First Folio, and the kinds of outside interference to which they were subjected.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019812256X/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(Acclaimed literary scholar Gary Taylor creates a new para...)
Acclaimed literary scholar Gary Taylor creates a new paradigm for understanding cultural history. He argues that culture is not what was done, but what is remembered and that the social competition among different memories is as dynamic as the biological struggle for survival.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465044883/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, ...)
Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBFHAM/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(The Collected Works brings together for the first time in...)
The Collected Works brings together for the first time in a single volume all the works currently attributed to Middleton. It is the first edition of Middleton's works since 1886.
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Middleton-Collected-Gary-Taylor/dp/0199580537/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not ...)
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not only a companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which every scholar of Renaissance literature will find indispensable. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the book in early modern Europe.
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Middleton-Modern-Textual-Culture-ebook/dp/B005NJS8MU/?tag=2022091-20
2007
The first member of his family to graduate from high school, Taylor won scholarships that led to bachelor's degrees in English and Classics from the University of Kansas in 1979 and to a doctorate in English from the University of Cambridge in 1988.
With Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor has worked for eight years as the "enfant terrible" of the Oxford Shakespeare (1978-1986), a project that generated much controversy through editorial decisions such as printing two separate texts of King Lear and attributing a poem commonly known as "Shall I die?" to Shakespeare - an attribution that has since been almost universally rejected.
He has taught at Oxford University, Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts since 1989, where he was Chair of the English department, and the University of Alabama, where he directed the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies during 1995-2005.
In 2005, Taylor joined the English Department at Florida State University, where he became founder and first director of the interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies program.
Taylor has also written extensively on Shakespeare, Middleton, early modern culture, canon formation, race and ethnicity, gender and masculinity. Four of his works are included in the Random House list of the hundred most important books on Shakespeare - more than any other non-British author.
He has also written for Time, The Guardian, and other periodicals, spoken to many theatre audiences, and been often interviewed on radio and television.
Taylor devoted twenty years to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, published by Oxford University Press in 2007. With John Lavagnino, he led a team of 75 contributors from 12 countries to produce "the Middleton First Folio", designed to establish Middleton’s status as "our other Shakespeare". Among other works, Taylor and Lavagnino chose to print the entire texts of William Shakespeare's plays Macbeth and Measure for Measure, on the theory that Middleton revised both of these plays after their original composition. They include Shakespeare's Timon of Athens as well, but in this case postulating that it was a collaboration between the two authors. Also included in the volume are such anonymous plays as A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Second Maiden's Tragedy (presented under the title The Lady's Tragedy) and The Revenger's Tragedy, which are generally, though not universally, credited to Middleton by modern scholars.
Gary Taylor is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.
(Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, ...)
2000(John Jowett and Gary Taylor explore the ways in which Sha...)
1993(Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not ...)
2007(Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his...)
1989(The Collected Works brings together for the first time in...)
2007(Acclaimed literary scholar Gary Taylor creates a new para...)
1996(A comprehensive accompaniment and resource for students a...)
1987