William H Sherman

William H. Sherman is Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of Cultural History in the University of London's School of Advanced Study. In addition to editing many collected volumes, special issues and editions of Renaissance plays, he is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (1998) and Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (2008). He is currently finishing a study of visual marginalia called The Reader's Eye (Reaktion),...See more

William H. Sherman is Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of Cultural History in the University of London's School of Advanced Study. In addition to editing many collected volumes, special issues and editions of Renaissance plays, he is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (1998) and Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (2008). He is currently finishing a study of visual marginalia called The Reader's Eye (Reaktion), and a history of codes and ciphers called The Cryptographic Renaissance (Oxford). See less