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COYLE, MARTIN

Professor Martin Coyle is Chair of English Literature at Cardiff University. His research interests include textual editing and the textual histories of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as the other aspects of Shakespeare including film. He teaches postgraduate courses on Violent Death in Renaissance Drama and Constructing Shakespeare, both concerned with the production of cultural meanings and the transitions between periods of literary history. Martin is General Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s New Casebooks Series and the Critical Issues Series. He is also currently working on books on Richard II and Hamlet, having recently completed, with John Peck, A Brief History of English Literature.

Contributed to:
Encyclopaedia of Literature and Criticism (co-editor) (Routledge, 1990)
Literary Terms and Criticism (How to Study Literature) (co-writer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1984)
How to Study a Shakespeare Play (How to Study Literature) (co-writer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1985)
"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
Practical Criticism (How to Study Literature) (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995)
Niccolo Machiavelli’s "The Prince": New Interdisciplinary Essays (Texts in Culture) (editor) (Manchester University Press, 1995)
"The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare (editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)
The Student’s Guide to Writing: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (co-writer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)
Shakespeare: "Richard II", Essays, Articles, Reviews (editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare (editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
Revenge Tragedy by Stevie Simkin (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
How to Begin Studying English Literature (Palgrave Study Guides) by Nicholas Marsh (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
A Brief History of English Literature (co-writer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Understanding Language by Geoffrey Finch (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Studying Modern Drama (Palgrave Study Guides) by Kenneth Pickering (co-editor)  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Marlowe (New Casebooks) (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Write It Right: A Handbook for Students (co-writer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Key Concepts in Crime Fiction (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)