Frederick Burwick, Research Professor at the University of California, Los AngelesTaught Romantic drama at UCLA, and directed dozens of performances of plays of the Romantic period.Author and editor of thirty-three books and one hundred and fifty articles Distinguished Scholar, British Academy (1992) and Keats-Shelley Association (1998)Lifetime AchievementAward, International Conference on Romanticism (2013)Editor, Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2009)General editor: Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (2012), 3 vols.His books on Romantic Drama include:Illusion and the Drama (1991)Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting (2009)Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780–1830 (2011)British Drama of the Industrial Revolution (2015)British Pirates in Print and Performance (2015), with Manushag Powell.