About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time, and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.

E. A. Copen lives deep in the deep dark woods outside one of the most haunted cities in Ohio. While working a boring retail job, she entertained herself with stories of the fantastic, some of which became books like Guilty by Association, Death Rites, and Broken Empire. She speaks three languages fluently: English, Latin, and sarcasm. E. A. is currently studying to become proficient in memes. Simon Russell Beale is an award-winning stage actor and recipient of numerous accolades, including the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He is an associate of the National Theatre and the Almeida Theatre in London and an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company. His audiobook narrations have won eight AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Stella Gonet has worked extensively in theater. Among her many key roles are Titania and Isabella for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac and Ophelia in Hamlet at the National Theatre. She has also read several roles for Naxos AudioBooks.

Reviews

"I do not know any other eminent work of Western literature that is nearly as nihilistic as Measure for Measure, a comedy that destroys comedy."-- "Harold Bloom"

"It brings before us a group of persons, attractive, full of desire...Behind this group of people, behind their various action, Shakespeare inspires in us the sense of a strong tyranny of nature and circumstance."-- "Walter Pater, essayist, art critic, and fiction writer"