Mar 01, 1945Birmingham, England, United Kingdom79 years old
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About J. P. Wearing
John Peter Wearing (born c.
1945) is an Anglo-American theatre historian and professor, who has written numerous books and articles about nineteenth and twentieth-century drama and theatre, including The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography, published in 2007.
He has also written and edited well-received books on George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Wing Pinero, extensive reference series on the London theatre from 1890 to 1959, and theatrical biographies, among other subjects.
As a professor of English literature, Wearing has specialised in Shakespeare and modern drama.