Incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1987, THE SHAKESPEARE GUILD is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to develop larger and more sophisticated audiences for the globe’s most influential writer. Although most of its efforts since 1992 have been focused on programs in Washington, New York, and London (with occasional forays into California, Illinois, and other locations), the GUILD will soon be expanding its outreach with new programs designed to make further opportunities available to those who love the poet and his works.
Supervising the GUILD’s efforts as President and Founder is John F. Andrews,
a scholar with degrees from Princeton, Harvard, and Vanderbilt who has taught
at several universities (among them Florida State and Georgetown), and whose experience includes a decade as Director of Academic Programs at the FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, eleven years as Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, seven years as Chairman of a National Advisory Panel to oversee educational applications for THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS (the BBC/TIME-LIFE series that brought the dramatic canon to American viewers over PBS between 1979 and 1985), and six years as Executive Director of the Nation’s Capital Branch
of the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION. His publications include two 3-volume reference sets for Scribners and two editions of Shakespeare’s works, 19 volumes in cloth for Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, and 16 volumes in paperback for Orion Books in London. Mr. Andrews has published articles and reviews in such periodicals as The American Scholar, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Click here for more detail, both about Mr. Andrews and about the GUILD’s distinguished BOARD OF DIRECTORS and ADVISORY COUNCIL.
