Manfred Draudt has published widely on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, metadramatic aspects and textual matters. Besides comparative studies and essays on twentieth-century drama, his work centres on nineteenth-century burlesques of Shakespeare, one of which he has edited. Recently he has focused on theatre history (in Shakespeare´s History Plays, ed. T. Hoenselaars, CUP 2004) and has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Although retired he is still lecturing, also abroad, and researching.