Vikram Chopra (31 July 1942 – 20 January 2023)

is Celia Jacobs Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of Theatre, Community and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London (University of Iowa Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Joseph Nativsky) of Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States (Routledge, 2022). He has written numerous articles on early modern drama and the long-term cultural authority of Shakespeare’s plays.