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Then place my purboil’d Head upon a Stake

Colin Burrow

  • Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660 edited by Peter Davidson

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Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.

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