author : Andrew DicksonAndrew Dickson was raised in Yorkshire, and studied at Cambridge. He is currently an honorary fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, a former visiting fellow at the University of Warwick, and has contributed to TheNewCambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Formerly an arts editor at the Guardian in London, he continues to write regularly for the paper and has also written for TheNew Yorker online and The New Statesman. He makes regular appearances on BBC radio and TV as a presenter and reviewer.