Philip Schwyzer is an American author and Professor of Renaissance Literature and Culture at Exeter University. Raised in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, often called simply Carmel, is a small city in Monterey County, California, United States, founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1916. Situated on the Monterey Peninsula, the town is known for its natural scenery and rich artistic history...

, Dr. Schwyzer received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. He also holds an M.Phil from Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College, Oxford

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His book Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature, explored images of exhumation and excavation texts including Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

; Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Donne's sermons and Browne's Hydriotaphia Further publications include Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales, Cambridge, (2005). He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare's Richard III.

He has co-authored sister guides to the Norton Anthology of English Literature

Norton Anthology of English Literature

The Norton Anthology of English Literature is an anthology of English literature published by the W. W. Norton & Company. It has gone through eight editions since its inception in 1962; it is the publisher's best-selling anthology, with some eight million copies in print. The influential critic...

and has contributed biographies to the Dictionary of National Biography

Dictionary of National Biography

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including Arthur Kelton

Arthur Kelton

Arthur Kelton was an author who wrote in rhyme about Welsh history.Kelton, whose date of birth and ancestry are unclear, is credited with Book of Poetry in Praise of Welshmen and A Chronicle with a Genealogie declaring that the Brittons and Welshmen are linealiye dyscended from Brute , which...

 and Thomas Phaer (Phayer). Books that he has co-edited include Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic Archipelago (with Simon Mealor) Ashgate, 2004. His most recent collaboration is the 2010 anthology Shakespeare and Wales, with Willy Maley.

Dr. Schwyzer is married and has three children. He is the son of the late philosopher Hubert Schwyzer, the younger brother of the feminist academic and writer Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer is an American author, speaker, activist and professor of history and gender studies at Pasadena City College...

, and the nephew of Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, the Austrian correspondent for The Tablet

The Tablet

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