Michael Scott is a noted theatre critic, and a widely published authority on Shakespeare and on Elizabethan drama. His books include John Marston's Plays: Theme, Structure and Performance (Macmillan 1978); Renaissance Drama & A Modern Audience (Palgrave Macmillan, 1982); Shakespeare & The Modern Dramatist (St. Martin's Press, 1989); Shakespeare, A Complete introduction (John Murray Press, 2017). He has previously published fiction as Michael Kerr Scott: Arthur, Legends of the King (Albert Bridge Books, 2017); Hamlet and the Psychotherapist ​(EER, 2022) The Scottish King: Macbeth and the Psychotherapist​ (EER, 2024). He is Senior Fellow and Senior Dean at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and has served as Director of the Future of the Humanities Project with Georgetown University, Washington, DC.