Joseph Papp (1921–1991)

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1. William Shakespeare

   Author of Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and Cressida

2. Marchette Chute

   Author of Shakespeare of London

3. Norrie Epstein

   Author of The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard

4. E. M. W. Tillyard

   Author of The Elizabethan World Picture

5. Isaac Asimov

   Author of Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare

6. Marjorie Garber

   Author of Shakespeare After All

7. Charles Boyce

   Author of Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More

8. Sir Thomas Malory

   Author of Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 1, Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 2

9. Harold Bloom

   Author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

10. Stephen Greenblatt

    Author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

11. A. C. Bradley

    Author of Shakespearean Tragedy

12. Robert McCrum

    Author of The Story of English

13. Michael Macrone

    Author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

14. Arthur Plotnik

    Author of Elements of Editing

15. James Shapiro

    Author of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

16. Frank Kermode

    Author of Shakespeare's language

17. Tom McArthur

    Author of The Oxford Companion to the English Language

18. Stanley Karnow

    Author of Vietnam: A History

19. Daniel Pool

    Author of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew

20. Eugene O'Neill

    Author of Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra