About Rex Gibson

Series Editor

Dr Rex Gibson taught Shakespeare at all levels from KS3 to university in the UK, and provided numerous Shakespeare courses for teachers and students in Germany and the United States of America. He edited the Cambridge School Shakespeare series and Cambridge Student Guides, and was Director of the Shakespeare and Schools Project. He was also Lecturer in Education in the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where he led many Shakespeare in-service courses for teachers.

Rex Gibson published well over one hundred articles and reviews on Shakespeare and teaching Shakespeare, and is the author of Teaching Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Language, Stepping into Shakespeare, Discovering Shakespeare's Language (all Cambridge University Press).

For the Cambridge School Shakespeare series he edited Romeo and Juliet, King Henry 1V parts 1 and 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The Tempest and The Sonnets, and co-edited King John, Hamlet and Measure for Measure. For the Cambridge Student Guide series he edited Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and The Tempest.

For his work on active approaches to teaching Shakespeare he was awarded the Sam Wanamaker International Shakespeare Globe Award and his book Teaching Shakespeare was Highly Commended by the committee of the English-Speaking Union Duke of Edinburgh Prize.