S Viswanathan is the General Editor of the Orient Blackswan Drama Classics. Dr 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) and Critical Essays in Honour of V S Seturaman (Madras: Macmillan, 1987).