Prof. Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter and a series editor for the Performance Studies series from UEP.

Having qualified as a Russian interpreter during his national service, he read Enlish at Jesus College, Cambridge, was a Canada Council scholar at the University of Toronto, a lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester and at University College, Swansea before becoming Professor of Drama at Exeter.

He is author and editor of numerous books including The Everyman Companion to the Theatre (Dent, 1985), Shakespeare's Theatre (Routledge, revised edition 1992), The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge, 1994), Shakespeare's Professional Career (Cambridge, new edition 1999) and On Actors and Acting (UEP, 2000).