Simon Trussler Email and Phone Number

Simon Trussler is proprietor of Country Setting, formed in 1990 and a pioneer in desktop typesetting, specialising in plays and theatre books, currently for Faber and Faber, Methuen Drama (Bloomsbury) and Cambridge University Press. He is also co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and the author or editor of numerous books on drama and theatre, including Shakespearean Concepts (1989), the award-winning Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (1993) and Will’s Will (2007). He was editor of the RSC Yearbook from 1978 to 1985, edited and introduced fourteen volumes in the ‘Swan Theatre Plays’ series (Methuen, 1986–89), and is typo­graph­ical con­­sultant for the ‘Shakespeare Folios’ series, in which eighteen titles have so far appeared. He was formerly Reader in Drama in the University of London and Senior Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College, where he is now Professor Emeritus.