Pauline is a Shakespeare scholar, literary critic, awarded-winning playwright and screenwriter. She’s held lectureships and fellowships at Oxford and Reading Universities, is the author of Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama, Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe and Screenwriting They Can’t Resist. She gives talks on Shakespeare and creative writing in the UK and US. She’s currently working on a major project about Shakespeare and a novel. Her best-selling Filthy Shakespeare, an Observer Book of the Year, is recently republished in an e-book edition.