Brian William Vickers

Known for his scholarly and literary criticism concerning classical rhetoric and its influence, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, authorship attribution in Elizabethan drama, and editing. Work includes Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (1968); The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose (1968); Towards Greek Tragedy (1973); In Defence of Rhetoric (1988); Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (2002); Shakespeare, A Lover’s Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (2007); The Oxford Francis Bacon (2008-) Director; The Collected Works of John Ford (2012--), Editor; The One King Lear (2016).